Main entry:

Schätzke, Andreas, author.

Title & Author:

Deutsche Architekten in Grossbritannien : Planen und Bauen im Exil 1933-1945 = German architects in Great Britain : planning and building in exile 1933-1945 / Andreas Schätzke ; unter Mitarbeit von Meike Schultz.

Publication:

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2013]
©2013

Description:

203 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreign neighbours. German architects in Great Britain 1933 -- 1945 -- De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea (East Sussex) -- Kaufmann House, Victoria Drive, Wimbledon (Surrey) -- Cohen House, Old Church Street, Chelsea, London -- Levy House, Old Church Street, Chelsea, London -- P. E. Gane exhibition pavilion, Royal Show, Ashton Court, Bristol -- Willesden Green Synagogue, Heathfield Park, Willesden Green (Middlesex) -- Macnabb House (Sea Lane House), Sea Lane, Angmering (West Sussex) -- Impington Village College, New Road, Impington (Cambridgeshire) -- Belvedere Court block of flats, Lyttelton Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb (Middlesex) -- E. H. Jones Machine Tools Ltd. service station, Birmingham -- From the correspondence of Walter Gropius 1933-1937.
In German and English.

Summary:

In the years after 1933 several hundred architects were forced to emigrate from Germany by the National Socialist dictatorship. Between seventy and eighty of them went to Great Britain--in part, prominent representatives of Modernism like Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Erwin Gutkind, Arthur Korn and Marcel Breuer, but also less well known architects who had adopted very divergent positions. They found the architectural scene in Great Britain to be surprisingly conservative. Only a small circle of architects, clients and specialist journalists was open to modern design and construction methods and stylistic idioms. A few emigrants very quickly and successfully managed to gain a foothold in an environment that was for the most part unfamiliar to them, while for others exile meant a serious break in their career. The book offers an overview of the topic and presents select buildings in detail. Moreover, hitherto largely unpublished documents from the estate of Walter Gropius provide a direct insight into his life and work in British exile.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9783936681758
3936681759

Subject:

Expatriate architects Great Britain History.
Architects Germany History.
Architecture, German Great Britain History.
Exiles Great Britain History.
Architectes expatriés Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architectes Allemagne Histoire.
Architecture allemande Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
21.73 urban development (architecture)
21.62 history of architecture.
Architects
Architecture, German
Exiles
Expatriate architects
Architektur
Neues Bauen
Internationaler Stil
Deutsche
Architekt
Exil
Jewish architects Biography
Germany
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Schultz, Meike, editor.

German architects in Great Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288884
Call No.: BIB 230897
Status: Available