Monumentality and Modernity in Hitler’s Berlin

The North-South Axis of the Greater Berlin Plan

By:

Hsiu-Ling Kuo

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

German Linguistic and Cultural Studies

Show Hide Adult Content

$245.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $61.50 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 18-30 July using International Courier

Description

The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. Post-war historiography refused to admit any overlap between the high modernism of the 1920s and the architecture of National Socialism, as it contradicted the definition of modernism as the essential architectural expression of liberal democracy. However, National Socialist architectural history cannot be fully explored without the broader historical context of modernity. Similarly, a true understanding of modernism in architecture must acknowledge its authoritarian aspects. This book clarifies the architectural discourse in which the Greater Berlin Project of the Third Reich was produced. The association of monumentality with National Socialist architecture in the 1930s created a polarization between the classical tradition and radical modernism that provoked vigorous and acrimonious debate that lasted into the 1980s. In the attempt to reconcile the paradoxical and competing aspirations for monumentality and historicity on one hand, and for technological advance on the other, the planning of Berlin is shown to reflect the wider paradoxes of National Socialist ideology.

Author Biography:

Hsiu-Ling Kuo is Assistant Professor of History at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her main research areas are art and architectural history, urban studies and critical cultural theories and her current research focuses on the politics of hygiene in the urban planning of National Socialist Germany.

Release date Australia

November 28th, 2012

Author

Hsiu-Ling Kuo

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Series edited by Peter Rolf Lutzeier

Edition

New edition

Pages

243

Series

German Linguistic and Cultural Studies

ISBN-13

9783034307550

Product ID

21172470

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more^*

Art & Photography Books:

Monumentality and Modernity in Hitler’s Berlin

By:

Format:

Series:

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Availability

Description

Author Biography:

Customer reviews

Marketplace listings

Help & options

Filed under...

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more*

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Author Biography:

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more^*