From the utopia of the glass cupola on Mt. Resegone to professional and organizational work on low-cost housing in Berlin: an imaginative exponent of the architecture of the early 20th century.
An important monograph on the complete work of Bruno Taut (1880-1938). A leading figure in the architectural expressionism of the immediate postwar period, Taut converted to the forms of Rationalism, passing from the utopia of the glass cupola on Mt. Resegone (1918) to professional and organizational work on low-cost housing in Berlin.
The loftiest expressions of his architectural activity include the pavilion for the Cologne Exposition in 1914 and the Britz quarter in Berlin in 1925.
From 1921 to 1924 he was chief architect of the city of Magdeburg, but with the rise of Nazism he left Germany to move abroad.
Rigorous texts and graphics, impeccable research and fine illustrations make this volume a fundamental contribution to the critical assessment of Taut, an imaginative exponent of the architecture of the early 20th century.