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The City Crown by Bruno Taut (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The City Crown by Bruno Taut (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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This book is the first English translation of the German architect
Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The
City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut
developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where
people would live in a garden city of 'apolitical socialism' and
peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline
structure. Taut's proposal sought to advance the garden city idea
of Ebenezer Howard and rural aesthetic of Camillo Sitte's urban
planning schemes by merging them with his own 'city crown' concept.
The book also contains contributions by the Expressionist poet Paul
Scheerbart, the writer and politician Erich Baron and the
architectural critic Adolf Behne. Although the original German text
was republished in 2002, only the title essay of The City Crown has
previously been translated into English. This English translation
of Taut's full anthology, complete with all illustrations and
supplementary texts, fills a significant gap in the literature on
early modern architecture in Germany and the history of urban
design. It includes a translators' preface, introduction and
afterword to accompany the original composition of essays, poems,
designs and images. These original texts are accompanied by
illustrations of Taut's own designs for a utopian garden city of
300,000 inhabitants and over 40 additional historic and
contemporary examples. The new preface to The City Crown explains
the premise for the English translation of Taut's anthology, its
organization and the approaches taken by the translators to
maintain the four different voices included in the original work.
Matthew Mindrup's introduction critically examines the professional
and intellectual developments leading up to and supporting Bruno
Taut's proposal to advance the English garden city concept with a
centralized communal structure of glass, the city crown. Through
the careful examination of original
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