Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

joy a minimum of modern comforts (figure 18) together with direct contact with na- ture—all at a rent they could afford. The rat ...

51 duced housing to its essentials; instead what was discussed was a choice between two evils. It was better to have too-small h ...

furt. As a result a sort of dialectics developed between the modern design principles that served as guidelines and the concrete ...

53 all take place here. This hierarchical structure with its centralizing tendency is com- bined with distinct zoning. Without i ...

On the level of the morphology of the city we come across the symbiosis of an organic design model and an approach that is based ...

55 The center of the city has the highest density of development and it is sur- rounded by a belt of nineteenth-century developm ...

inaugurate the new era by developing a dialectic between a new formal idiom and the existing traditions of an existing city. As ...

57 There are, however, a number of important new features: the brilliant interplay of curved and rectangular shapes, both in the ...

houses no longer built face to face, but giving them all an identical orientation, so that front and back facades look out on ea ...

59 yard, while with a second movement it creates an abrupt reduction of the space, re- sulting in a narrowing that coincides wit ...

that the architecture of all the rows is very regular, but every street is given a specific character by the planting of a parti ...

61 core of the city. However, one can get to it from Westhausen only by crossing the busy Ludwig Landmannstrasse. The structure ...

are very few different types of dwelling in Westhausen (figures 34 and 35) and the differentiation of the urban spaces is carrie ...

63 spaces. With simple means a differentiation is accomplished between the different parts of the public areas. The urban spaces ...

The result is a Siedlungin which all the elements are present that will later lead to a trivializing and instrumentalizing of th ...

65 of all forms of ornament and the use of flat roofs and large balconies point to a de- liberate tendency toward innovation, as ...

37 Hans Leistikow, color scheme for Praunheim. (Photo: Institut für Stadtgeschichte der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.) 36 Theo van Do ...

67 interpenetrate and the boundary is not clearly drawn. In Praunheim, on the other hand, “inside” and “outside” are very clearl ...

Frankfurt were factors that could not be ignored. The parameters within which they had to operate were fairly narrow. It goes wi ...

69 tionalization was entirely in keeping with a societal modernization implemented ac- cording to the norms of an instrumental r ...