Hermann muthesius biography of nancy
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Nancy as a Center of Art Nouveau Architecture, 1895-1914
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2nd urbanHIST Conference, Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism, 21-23 October 2019, Stockholm (Suède). After World War II, the city of Nancy used the French government measures voted in 1957 to eradicate the insalubrious housing. The 7-hectares district Saint-Sébastien is then completely demolished and the adjacent neighbourhood of the railway station is the subject of an urban planning study, to remodel its old urban fabric. Like for other French cities, a new vision of the city and its buildings is proposed, inspired by the American models. Well-known architects are solicited for building housing, stores, offices and public equipment, which mixed subtle metallic facades and textured concrete. However, these projects were conducted without consideration of architectural heritage. The radicalness of several interventions led to protest movements in the favour of the Nancy heritage safeguard. Those protests were about the 18th-century heritage, when Stanislas Leszczynski, Duke of Lorraine, organized important urban planning, but also the Art Nouveau heritage from the 1900s. Nancy is indeed an
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Long regarded as one of the most important works ever written in the field of architectural criticism and architectural history Das englische Haus was first published in 1904 and is now for the first time translated into English in its entirety, with all its original contemporary illustrations and plans. Hermann Muthesius was the cultural attache at the German Embassy in London at a time of profound change in the arts and crafts and particularly in domestic architecture in Britain. An architect himself, and a friend of Mackintosh and Lethaby, Muthesius was fascinated by the English love of home and countryside, their dislike of ostentation and their enthusiasm for cleanliness - all of which showed itself in the architecture of the day, and which he recorded and discussed in astonishing and still unmatched detail. This book presents the social and historical development of the English house from about 1860 to 1900 - the age of Norman Shaw, Philip Webb, Voysey and Lutyens as well as Mackintosh and Morris. The planning, layout, aspect and aesthetics of the house, are all discussed, analysed and illustrated in detail, along with the interiors, the gardens and even the furniture and sanitary fittings. It has been observed that this book which was, and remains, hugely influential '
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Summary of Jugendstil
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