Before The Bauhaus Architecture Politics And The German State 18901920 John V Maciuika by John V. Maciuika 9780521790048, 0521790042 instant download after payment.

Before the Bauhaus reevaluates the political, architectural, and artistic cultures of pre–WorldWar I Germany. Every bit as contradictory and conflict ridden as the German Second Reich itself, the world of architects, craftsmen, and applied-arts “artists” was in no way immune to the expansionist,
imperialist, and capitalist struggles that transformed Germany in the
quarter-century leading up to the First World War. In this study, John V.
Maciuika brings together architectural and design history, political history, social history, and cultural geography. He substantially revises our
understanding of the roots of the Bauhaus and, by extension, the historical
roots of twentieth-century German architecture and design. At the same
time, his book also sheds new light on hotly contested debates pertaining
to the history of pre–World War I Germany: namely, questions involving
the “modernity” or “anti-modernity” of the German Second Empire, the
character and effectiveness of the government administration, and the role
played by the nation’s most important architects, members of the rising
bourgeois class, in challenging the traditional aristocracy at the top of the
new German economic and social order.