This architectural anthology presents "The City Crown" by Bruno Taut, a significant work from 2016. This English translation, the first comprehensive one, delves into Taut's visionary urban planning concepts, heavily influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and Camillo Sitte's urbanism. The text explores Taut's core concept of an "'Apolitical Socialism' Garden City" and its architectural expression within the Expressionist movement. It highlights the contributions of key collaborators such as Paul Scheerbart, Erich Baron, and Adolf Behne, and features Taut's designs alongside approximately 40 additional illustrations depicting utopian garden city concepts for large populations.
This manual serves as a vital resource for understanding early modern German architecture and urban design history, filling a notable gap in existing literature. It includes a translators' preface, an introduction by Matthew Mindrup focusing on the intellectual developments behind Taut's proposal, and an afterword. The translation meticulously preserves the distinct voices of the original German contributors. This document is essential for architects, urban planners, historians, and students seeking in-depth knowledge of Taut's influential ideas and their historical context, particularly in relation to the period surrounding World War I.
This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of 'apolitical socialism' and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure. Taut's proposal sought to advance the garden city idea of Ebenezer Howard and rural aesthetic of Camillo Sitte's urban planning schemes by merging them with his own 'city crown' concept. The book also contains contributions by the Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart, the writer and politician Erich Baron and the architectural critic Adolf Behne. Although the original German text was republished in 2002, only the title essay of The City Crown has previously been translated into English. This English translation of Taut's full anthology, complete with all illustrations and supplementary texts, fills a significant gap in the literature on early modern architecture in Germany and the history of urban design. It includes a translators' preface, introduction and afterword to accompany the original composition of essays, poems, designs and images. These original texts are accompanied by illustrations of Taut's own designs for a utopian garden city of 300,000 inhabitants and over 40 additional historic and contemporary examples. The new preface to The City Crown explains the premise for the English translation of Taut's anthology, its organization and the approaches taken by the translators to maintain the four different voices included in the original work. Matthew Mindrup's introduction critically examines the professional and intellectual developments leading up to and supporting Bruno Taut's proposal to advance the English garden city concept with a centralized communal structure of glass, the city crown. Through the careful examination of original
Author: Mindrup, Matthew
Author: Altenmüller-Lewis, Ulrike
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: The City Crown by Bruno Taut
Pages: 00218 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00218 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2016-03-09
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781472421999
Category: Architecture : Criticism
Category: Architecture : Planning
This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of 'apolitical socialism' and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure. Taut's proposal sought to advance the garden city idea of Ebenezer Howard and rural aesthetic of Camillo Sitte's urban planning schemes by merging them with his own 'city crown' concept. The book also contains contributions by the Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart, the writer and politician Erich Baron and the architectural critic Adolf Behne. Although the original German text was republished in 2002, only the title essay of The City Crown has previously been translated into English. This English translation of Taut's full anthology, complete with all illustrations and supplementary texts, fills a significant gap in the literature on early modern architecture in Germany and the history of urban design. It includes a translators' preface, introduction and afterword to accompany the original composition of essays, poems, designs and images. These original texts are accompanied by illustrations of Taut's own designs for a utopian garden city of 300,000 inhabitants and over 40 additional historic and contemporary examples. The new preface to The City Crown explains the premise for the English translation of Taut's anthology, its organization and the approaches taken by the translators to maintain the four different voices included in the original work. Matthew Mindrup's introduction critically examines the professional and intellectual developments leading up to and supporting Bruno Taut's proposal to advance the English garden city concept with a centralized communal structure of glass, the city crown. Through the careful examination of original
Author: Mindrup, Matthew
Author: Altenmüller-Lewis, Ulrike
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: The City Crown by Bruno Taut
Pages: 00218 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00218 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2016-03-09
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781472421999
Category: Architecture : Criticism
Category: Architecture : Planning
