Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
It is one of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century architecture: that the buildings which appeared most austere and raw — the massive concrete structures of the 1950s to 1970s — were in fact realized with an extraordinary degree of care, precision, and craft. In an age of economic boom, growing labor costs, and expanding workers’ …
Weiterlesen "The Hands That Built the Future: On Craftsmanship and the Paradox of Brutalism"
Every culture is haunted by the question of origins. Where does authenticity begin? For America, two figures answer in remarkably parallel ways—one with words, the other with buildings. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher of Self-Reliance, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect of organic modernism, never met across time, yet their work speaks like two voices …
Weiterlesen "The Architecture of Self-Reliance: Emerson’s Philosophy in Wright’s Buildings"
Between Architecture and Exile Sérgio Ferro’s path defies linearity. Trained in Brazil under João Vilanova Artigas, he entered the optimism of modernism—only to confront its contradictions. His exile in France, his turn to painting, and his refusal to practice architecture all mark a life shaped by fracture and resistance. Brasília’s Hidden Violence What defined Ferro …
Abendvortrag Frei Otto – Von der Seifenhaut zur gebauten Architektur Martin Kunz, Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau (saai) 25. September 2025, 19.00 Uhr, Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum (Medienraum), Schwäbisch Hall. Der Eintritt ist frei. Der Vortrag von Herrn Martin Kunz führt in die visionäre Entwurfsarbeit von Frei Otto (1925-2015) ein. Als ausgewiesener Kenner des Nachlasses beleuchtet …
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When we speak about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, we usually think of the great canonical works: the Barcelona Pavilion, the Tugendhat House, the Seagram Building. His reputation rests on a clarity of form that seems timeless, as if it had always been there. But the journey that led him to this stripped-down, almost ascetic …
Weiterlesen "Mies Before Modernism: Detours and First Steps"
Architecture as Ethical Terrain Carmen Belmonte’s edited volume A Difficult Heritage. The Afterlives of Fascist-Era Art and Architecture is less a catalogue of monuments than a meditation on what happens when ideology hardens into stone. For those of us trained to read architecture not only as form but also as cultural instrument, the book offers …
Pier Luigi Nervi, einem der innovativsten und einflussreichsten Ingenieure des 20. Jahrhunderts, verdanken wir den überaus eleganten Entwurf für das zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre in Florenz errichtete Stadion Berta. Mittlerweile wurde an dem Stadion immer wieder gebaut und verändert, um es den sich wandelnden Bedürfnissen des Entertainmentzeitalters anzupassen. In Stadio Artemio Franchi umbenannt, ist …
Ulrike Gawlik, who has already made an important contribution to Italian studies with her dissertation on the Italian landscape architect Raffaele De Vico (published 2012), now broadens the view with her post-doctoral thesis to the quite mutual influences of Italy and Germany in the 'saddle period' around 1930. In her new book she delves into …
In the area of urban research and monument studies, attempts have been made in recent years to map the process of reconstruction. This seems all the more important since the building heritage of the years after 1945 has fully arrived in the focus of the preservation of historical buildings and the architectural discourse. This atlas …
Weiterlesen "Published by Carmen Enss and Birgit Knauer: Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland"
In the inner periphery of Venice, various residential areas were built in the 1920s and 1930s to absorb the population demands of the time, which were also felt in the lagoon city. Attempts were made to design the urban form of the new neighborhoods in such a way that they blended harmoniously with Venice's particular …
Weiterlesen "Published by Alexander Fichte: Städtische Wohnquartiere in Venedig (1918–1939)"
Luigi Monzo 