ARTH 306 Lecture Notes - Bismarck Memorial, Bauakademie, Hugo Lederer
4 May 2013
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Germans need wider span in their buildings: an arch style was ideal b/c could use weaker material but still span spaces xi. Also argues climate so need to have a cornice at the top to carry water and pitched roofs xii. Taught at the institute of applied arts in berlin, and then art academy xiv. Most important as a generator of ideas student of schinkel xv. He more of a theorist then a designer and doer xvi. Describes in a book what tectonic architecture is xvii. Werkform working form hard to determine where this begins and ends in relation with: xviii. Unless you have the work form the building is just a building xx. The artistic form is always produced by a structural form xxi. All you have to do is figure out structure of the art form and then the style will present itself xxii. New german architecture would be based on iron less material and mass.
