Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

by Barbara Miller Lane

Book Overview

In the spring of 1933, the Nazi government began its campaign to eliminate "modern" tendencies in German art--with particular emphasis on architecture--and to eradicate what it chose to call "art bolshevism." The Bauhaus, by then an internationally famous center of avant garde design, was shut down. In a close analysis of intellectual, political, social, and economic developments, Lane shows that Nazi views on architecture were generated by a complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674043502
• ISBN13: 9780674043503
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.