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The Crystal Chain - "Die Gläserne Kette" - was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919-1920, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists exchanged ideas on what form the architecture of the future should take. Unfettered by the demands of practicability, the members of the group described their visions of an ideal society and of a beneficent architecture in a series of dazzling, fantastic letters and drawings. Although the letters are referred to in almost every survey of twentieth century architecture, this is the first book to offer in English the complete texts of all the known Crystal Chain letters, including some which have never been published in German. The letters are accompanied by illustrations, an introductory essay, and explanatory notes. The Crystal Chain Letters document the crisis of modernism that afflicted German architectural theory in the years immediately following the First World War. The trauma of the war and the subsequent social unrest led the radical architects to reject the materialism and positivism that had characterized the "Kaiserreich." The result was an ideological and aesthetic vacuum, and the search for suitable alternatives provided the basis for the correspondence. After a year of intense theoretical speculation, several of the links in the chain, including Bruno and Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, and Hans Scharoun, emerged as leading advocates and practitioners of the new architecture in Germany.
-MIT Press
List of Materials:
A Display in Collaboration with Antiquariat Renate Wolf-Kurz & Cornelia Kastelan
On Display:
Die Gläserne Kette - Eine Expressionistische Korrespondenz über die Architektur der Zukunft
Iain Boyd Whyte und Romana Schneider
Hatje, ISBN 3-7757-0565-1
Hermann Finsterlin - Ideenarchitektur
Städtische Museum Leverkusen
Hermann Finsterlin - Eine Annäherung
Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1988
Westfälische Landesmuseum Münster 1988
Von Reinhard Döhl
Hermann Finsterlin - U.T 1922
Mixed Media
Bruno Taut 1880- 1938
Akademie der Künste
ISBN 3-88331-915-5 1980
Hans Poelzig- Der Dramatische Raum
Museum Haus Lange & Museum Haus Esters Krefeld 1986
Fantastic Architecture - Wassili Luckhardt, Monument to Labor 1919-1920
Personal and Eccentric Visions
Schuyt, Elfers, Collins
Abrams Inc, New York
ISBN 0-8109-0914-6
Paul Gösch 1885-1940 - Zwischen Avantgarde und Anstalt
Sammlung Prinzhorn 2016
Thomas Röcke Hg.
ISBN 978-3-88423-539-3
Hans Scharoun - Bauten und Projekte
Carsten Krohn
Eva Maria Barkäufen
ISBN 978-3-0356-0679-9
2018 Birkhäuser / Akademie der Künste
Bruno Taut Glashaus - Kristallisationen, Splitterungen
Birkhäuser 1993
Werkbund Archiv, Md Berlin
ISBN 3-7643-2895-9
Berlin Paris - Übereinstimmung und Gegensätze Frankreich Deutschland (1900-1933)
Essay: Wolfgang Pehnt: Die Architektur und der deutsche Expressionismus
Poelzig, Taut, Finsterlin ,Scheerbart, Mendelsohn, Luckhardt, Häring
Prestel Verlag München
Centre pompidou , Paris 1978
ISBN 3-7913-0466-6
Sharp Words: Selected Essays Of Dennis Sharp (1933-2010)
Essay: Paul Scheerbart`s Glass World
Cassochrome, Belgium
Isbn 978-1-907896 07 1
AA Publications, London
Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp (1933-2010)
Anna & Hermann Muthesius
Essay: Mackintosh and Muthesius
Cassochrome, Belgium
Isbn 978-1-907896 07 1
Aa publications, London
Henry Van De Velde - Amo Credo - Ich Liebe, Ich glaube
Insel Bücherei Nr.3
Insel Verlag Wiesbaden 1954
Hugo Häring - Vom neuen Bauen & Über Das Geheimnis Der Neuen Gestalt
Akademie der Künste 1957
Wie Frauen bauen - Emilie Winkelmann, Lily Reich, Else Oppler Legband
Sonia Ricon Baldessarini
AvivA 2001
ISBN 978-3932338120
Partisan Canon
Else Oppler Legband, Anna Muthesius
Anna Brzyski
Duke University Press 2007
Erich Mendelsohn - Große Meister der Architektur - VIII
Von Wolf Eckardt
Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1962
Paul Scheerbart - Glasarchitektur
Rogner & Bernhard München 1971
ISBN 3-920802-79-9
Friedrich Nietzsche - Gedichte
Insel Bücherei Nr.361
Insel Verlag 1950
Die Glaskunst im Wandel der Jahrtausende
Ludwig F. Fuchs
Schneekloth Verlag, Darmstadt 1965
Wendingen - A journal of the arts (1918-1932)
Herrmann Finsterlin - A play of Forms in Architecture 1924
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1-56898-276-3
Martin F. Le Coultre
Wendingen - A journal of the arts (1918-1932)
Crystals , The Wonder Forms Of Nature 1925
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1-56898-276-3
Martin F. Le Coultre
Wendingen - A journal of the arts (1918-1932)
Erich Mendelsohn 1921
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1-56898-276-3
Martin F. Le Coultre
Hans Scharoun - Gebaute und Visionäre Architektur 1973
Akademie der Künste in der Kunsthalle Hamburg
Exhibition Poster
Wenzel Hablik - Blick aus der Höhle
Etching, 19,5 x 19,5 cm (1973)
verso mit Nachlasssetempel
Walter Gropius
Media:
Peter Blundell Jones - Scharoun and the Organic Tradition
AA school of Architecture 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK22ok1uYXw
Paul Scheerbart
Gelesen von Andreas Dietrich
Machtspäße - Arabische Novellen
2006 Riolomedia
Reads in the Context of the Time:
Tessenow,Muthesius,Loos, Oxford History of Architecture, Colquhoun 2002
Architecture & Thought- Germany 1880-1920, DalCo, 1990
Mackintosh, Mutheius, Japan, Journal of Architecure Vol.18, Jackson
Before the Bauhaus - Architecture, Politics and the German State 1890 - 1920, Cambridge, Maciuika, 2005
Neuroarchitekur, Metzger 2018
Mutheius, Style Architecture & Building Art 1901, Anderson, 1994
Alternative Geneaology-/German Moderinsm-World Cultures, Journal of Architecture Vol18, OsayimWese
Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Charlotte Cramer Sachs 1907 - 2004, Oswald, 2013
Pioneers of Modern Design, Pevsner, 1977
Anti Rationalists - Art Nouveau Architecture and Design, Pevsner & Richards, 1973
Haus als Heimat, Tagesspiegel, Posener, 1977
Schinkel, Muthesius, Polzig, Expressionism, Lecture by Posener, 1972
Expressionism Cultural - Industrial Civilisation, Architecurall Archive of Japan, Suzuki
Expressionism - Neue Sachlichkeit - Bauhaus, Architecurall Archive of Japa, Suzuki
German Cities & Bourgeois Modernism 1890 - 1924, Umbach, 2009
Werkbundarchiv, Muthesius Nachlass, Flagmeier, Ludovico, Posener, Schwartz, 2012
