Alvar Aalto, Ernst Neufert, and Architectural Standardization in Germany and Finland, 1933–45
| Autor: | Nader Vossoughian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 79:202-212 |
| ISSN: | 2150-5926 0037-9808 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jsah.2020.79.2.202 |
| Popis: | Not long ago, many historians believed that the first great era of German modern architecture ended abruptly with Hitler’s rise to power. According to this narrative, the demise coincided with the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933 and the subsequent emigration of leading architects such asWalterGropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Today, we know that the story is far more complicated. On the one hand, historians such as Barbara Miller Lane and Winfried Nerdinger have shown that the Nazis’ views of modernism were more nuanced than was once believed, and that many German modernist designers courted and were granted government patronage under the Nazi regime. On the other hand, we still know little about the transnational architectural networks that sustained the Nazis during World War II. A case in point is the professional relationship between the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and the German industrial builder Ernst Neufert, who worked for Albert Speer from 1938 to 1945. In Alvar Aalto, Ernst Neufert, and Architectural Standardization in Germany and Finland, 1933–45, Nader Vossoughian examines the history and genesis of that relationship, particularly its relevance to wartime debates about standardization. |
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