German Architecture for a Mass Audience

Download or read book German Architecture for a Mass Audience written by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.