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David Frisby/Iain Boyd White
Metropolitan Form and Culture, 1880-1940:
A German Source Book
Publication
The proposed source book, "Modern Architecture and Urban Culture, 1880-1940" will contain key texts from German sources in Austria, and Germany (and some from Switzerland). The texts, almost all of which have not appeared in English translation, will be accompanied by detailed critical introductory sections and suggested further reading and bibliographies.
The texts will be focused around four major areas of concern: the development of an urban culture (including its material artifacts) and its relationship to the experience of modernity; a modern architecture that is appropriate for a modern metropolis (including reactions against it); the emergence of the modern metropolis and accompanying debates; and the debates on city planning in the metropolitan centres of Germany and Austria.
The questions addressed are: how was the city experienced as a material and cultural form?; what did the city look like?; how was it to be regulated?; and what architecture was most appropriate for its specific problems and conditions?
Contact:
Iain Boyd Whyte
Professor
University of Edinburgh
Department of Architecture
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom EH1 1JZ
Tel: 44-131-650-2322
Fax: 44-131-650-8019
Email: iain@caad.ed.ac.uk
URL: www.caad.ed.ac.uk
Principal Investigator(s):
David Frisby, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow
Iain Boyd Whyte
Project Subject:
Architecture-History and Design (European)
Urban Design and Planning
Chronological Period:
1850-1949
Completion Date:
January, 2001
Year Funded:
1999
Related keywords:
Austria
Germany
Urban Design and Planning