The Building Centre: Reprographic copy of a letter for Die gläserne Kette

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People:

Hans Hansen (author)
Die gläserne Kette (correspondence writers)
Die gläserne Kette (archive creator)

Title:

The Building Centre: Reprographic copy of a letter for Die gläserne Kette

Date:

1920

Description:

Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathais Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. In this letter Hansen describes a theoretical project, "Der Bauhof", which is typical of the utopian concerns of the members (transl. in Whyte, 67-69). Text signed "Antischmitz", pseudonym of Hansen for Die gläserne Kette correspondence.

Form:
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 typescript(s)

Extent and medium:

3 textual records

Dimensions:

sheets: 28.2 x 21.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0017:001-003

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

There are several old folds and some small tears on each of the three pages of this reproduction of a letter.

Inscription:

signed and dated - on DR1988:0017:003, by the author ? in pen and black ink, b.: "Köln im Febrüar 1920 Antischmitz" inscribed - on all sheets, by the author ? in pen and black ink, throughout: with annotations and corrections imprinted - on DR1988:0017:001, by the author, on the original, t.: with title

Location:

Germany

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

DR1988:0017:001, Text by Hans Hansen entitled "Der Bauhof", February 1920

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