TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susan R. Henderson
PY  - 2013
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453905333
TI  - Building Culture
T2  - Ernst May and the New Frankfurt am Main Initiative, 1926–1931
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0533-3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050876
N2  - This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within the turbulent context of the Weimar decade. It chronicles its many accomplishments: the construction of housing settlements, innovations in construction and materials, the parks and garden colonies program, innovations in school, medical facility and church design, reforms in woman’s sphere, and a crafting of New Life culture. It examines the New Frankfurt am Main in light of the social and political debates that shaped it and the works it produced, and describes the relationship of work and theory to contemporary reform movements. Finally, the narrative underscores the gulf between the idyll of modernity and the political and social realities of life in a Germany on the brink of collapse.
KW  - history, innovations, modernity
LA  - English
ER  -