ABC: International Constructivist Architecture, 1922-1939MIT Press, 1994 - 195 Seiten Constructivism is widely thought of as a Russian phenomenon, but as Sima Ingberman shows in this first comprehensive study of the architectural group ABC, it was an influential international movement. Established in 1924, the ABC group included Mart Stam of the Netherlands, El Lissitzky of the Soviet Union, and the Swiss architects Hans Schmidt, Hannes Meyer, Hans Wittwer, Paul Artaria, Emil Roth, and Werner Moser, among others. It became the foremost constructivist network outside the Soviet Union, producing designs for buildings in, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and the United States. Some of these, like the Van Nelle factory and the Halle Airport Restaurant, have become significant landmarks of the modern movement. Ingberman brings to light a rich array of historical documentation, charting for the first time Lissitzky's particular alliance with ABC and tracing ABC's influences and developments, formal, material, constructional, and ideological. She provides a serious treatment of the Socialist and Communist interests of architects like Stam and Meyer, and charts the shift from the ambitious public projects in the earlier years of the movement (frequently ideological in motivation) to the more domestic scale of the middle and late 1930s. Also covered are Meyer and Wittwer's groundbreaking constructivist designs, Stam, Schmidt, and Roth's development of serialized constructional forms, ABC's conceptualization of town planning, the graphic and ideological relationships between ABC, the journal and other avant-garde magazines such as Veshch and G; and the individual projects of the architects associated with the ABC group. |
Inhalt
El Lissitzky the Father of International Constructivism | 3 |
Lissitzky and Asnova | 13 |
Four | 14 |
Mart Stams Vision | 19 |
2 | 28 |
The Formation of a Group and the Birth of a Magazine | 43 |
2 | 51 |
3 | 57 |
ABC and the Swiss and German Werkbunds 19271931 | 85 |
Residences 19271931 | 101 |
2 | 117 |
ABC and CIAM | 147 |
Notes | 181 |
187 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1992 Walter Mair ABC architects ABC Beiträge ABC constructivism ABC group ABC members ABC style ABC's Alfred Roth approach artists Asnova avant-garde Basel Bauhaus Beiträge zum Bauen Berlage Berlin Beton buildings CIAM circulatory Communist construction constructivist Constructivist Architecture Cornavim created Current photo developed Dutch El Lissitzky Emil Roth example exterior facade featured figure format frame Frank Lloyd Wright functional German Werkbunds Germany Hannes Meyer Hans Schmidt Heimatschutz Holland inspired interior issue Karl Egender Karl Moser Königsberg Ladovsky Le Corbusier Lissitzky's Mart Stam materials Max Ernst Haefeli modern architecture Moscow Neubühl Paul Artaria Petersschule Prospekte Prouns proved publication radical restaurant Rokin Rotterdam Rudolf Steiger Russian constructivism Schalung Schmidt and Moser School Schorenmatten Schweizerische Bauzeitung Soviet staircase stairwells Stam's structure Swiss Swiss architects Swiss Werkbund Switzerland terraces tower unserer USSR Veshch villas Vkhutemas Weissenhof Siedlung Weiterbauen Werner Moser Wittwer WOBA Zurich