Add this copy of Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth to cart. $57.80, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by MIT Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1100grams, ISBN: 9780262511308.
Add this copy of Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth to cart. $81.01, fair condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Mit Pr.
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Add this copy of Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth to cart. $133.00, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by MIT Press.
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VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine on the mylar jacket. Stamp on title page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on the back free end page. It seems to be missing an outer clear jacket with 'Peter Behrens' printed on it. Green fabric with the title in black font down the spine. The free and pasted end pages are color designed. Pages: (10), xi, (5), 3-429. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "This text looks at the work of Peter Behrens, analyzing the cultural and architectural context in which it was produced and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art." Contents are as follows: 1; A Context for the Early Work of Behrens: The Emergence of a New Architecture in Germany and Austria around 1900; 1--; 2; Behrens's Changing Concept of Life as Art: A Review of the Early Work; 27--; 3; Behrens's Highest Kultursymbol, the Theater: Darmstadt, 1900-1903; 45--; 4; Theory and Teaching of Architecture: Dusseldorf, 1903-1907; 69--; 5; Modern Architecture and Industry, a Cultural Policy of Historical Determinism: Berlin I; 95--; 6; Industrial Design, a Strategy for Uniting Technology and Art: Berlin II; 113--; 7; Architecture for Industry, the AEG Factories: Berlin III; 129--; 8; Expression, Convention, and Convention as Expression: Berlin IV; 165--; 9; Interwar Years; 221.
Add this copy of Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth to cart. $155.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Mit Pr.
Add this copy of Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth to cart. $179.39, very good condition, Sold by LLU- BOOKSERVICE ANTIQUARIAN rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wahlstedt, S-H, GERMANY, published by Mit Pr.
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Very good. Most histories of twentieth-century architecture cite Peter Behrens' influence on three of his protgs--Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier--and mention the turbine factory and arc lamp he designed for the German electrical firm AEG. Now Behrens' full contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture is finally told, in Stanford Anderson's indispensable guide to one of the great designers of our century. The author was first attracted to Behrens as one of the emblematic figures in the development of architectural modernism. Over the years, he has reflected critically on the growing body of Behrens scholarship that has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as on the views of such tastemakers as Philip Johnson, who rejected Behrens' AEG Turbine Factory, the signature icon of his early experiments in modernism, in favor of his later conservatively classical work. Anderson now assimilates decades of research into a definitive work that considers Behrens from the most nuanced perspective yet and that clarifies many problematic issues such as Behrens' endorsement of historical determinism and his work on Hitler's proposed monumental axis in Berlin. The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Dsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as Alois Riegl and August Schmarsow. In his conclusion, Anderson considers Behrens' melancholy in the face of modern industrial society and his avoidance of a direct address of life, despite, or rather because of, his professed commitment to express life as art.
