General Information

Language

English.

Published

Wuppertal, Germany : Published for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Tel Aviv by Müller + Busmann Press, 1995.

Physical Description

191 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Fiedler, Jeannine, 1957-

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Subjects

Subject

Bauhaus > Influence.

Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Philosophy.

Architecture > Germany > History > 20th century.

Architecture > Israel > 20th century.

City planning > Germany.

City planning > Israel.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Jeannine Fiedler.

Content

Foreword / Anke Martiny, Rolf Kuhn -- The Bauhaus effect / John David Morley -- The "New Man" and the architecture of the twenties / Wolfgang Pehnt -- Walter Benjamin and the utopia of the "New Architecture" / Christoph Asendorf -- Between a nest and a cube: about architecture and the concept of life in the 1920's / Jeannine Fiedler -- Toward a new working and living community: plans for a housing development in Weimar in 1920-1923 / Michael Siebenbrodt -- Bauhaus and labor movement in the political and cultural discussion during the Weimar Republic / Bernd Faulenbach -- The shaping of the "New Jew" in the Yishuv / Yoav Gelber -- The garden city idea as adopted by the Zionist establishment / Emanuel Tal -- The Geddes vision of the region as city -- Palestine as a "polis" / Volker M. Welter -- Paths in utopia: on the development of early kibbutzism / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- Workers' settlements in Eretz-Israel / Edina Meyer-Maril -- The Palestine prefabs of the 1930's: a literal case of technology transfer / Gilbert Herbert -- The kibbutz as an urban alternative / Freddie Kahana -- Reception between fascination and rejection: the Bauhaus in the U.S.A. -- Farewell to utopia? A special chapter on Bauhaus reception in the German Democratic Republic / Wolfgang Thöner -- Utopia at the end of the twentieth century: the current discussion in Germany / Bernd Faulenbach -- From utopia to atopia: on the creativity of memory, fictionalization and artificial apathy / Dieter Hassenpflug.

ISBN

392876618

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	724.6 FIE		Reference	-

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