architecture and form of work

Architecture and work form No. 1 from 1947, title page

Baukunst und Werkform , a series of articles on building , was a magazine that the architect and critic Alfons Leitl founded as editor with Franz Meunier as editor and the publisher Lambert-Schneider in 1946. The editorial office was in Rheydt, Düsseldorf district, Nordstr. 83, later, when Eugen Kogon published the magazine, in Frankfurt a. M.

Forum of West German Post-War Modernism

The number 1 was published under the title First Booklet - A Cross Section 1947 under license US.W.1007 with contributions by Hans Schwippert , Otto Bartning , Ludwig Neundörfer , Hans Scharoun , Eugen Blanck , Robert Vorhoelzer , Hugo Häring , Rudolf Lodders , Egon Eiermann , Fritz Schumacher , Georg Leowald , Rudolf Schwarz , Rudolf Steinbach , Hermann Mäckler , Johann Haefs and Alfons Leitl.

The magazine was initially published in loose succession with the participation of Otto Bartning, Egon Eiermann, Werner Hebebrand , Hugo Häring, Hans P. Koellmann, Georg Leowald, Rudolf Lodders, Rudolf Schwarz, Otto E. Swiss and Hans Schwippert, and later monthly. It was the public forum of post-war modernism in West Germany : The Bauhaus debate in 1953 and the Düsseldorf architects ' dispute were fought in it ; critically accompanies the reconstruction and rebuilding; young architects, new and international architectural developments presented; the understanding of architecture opened and expanded.

From 1954 Ulrich Conrads was the editor. The magazine was later published by the Nürnberger Presse publishing house and was merged with "db Deutsche Bauzeitung " in 1962 .

Articles in the journal Baukunst und Werkform , which dealt with the challenges, questions, tasks and goals of reconstruction, were documented, summarized and published in a book in 2003; because as Ulrich Conrads concluded in the editoral: "(...) seldom have a series of speeches and essays older than half a century seemed so topical to me as the one brought to light here."

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Individual evidence

↑ Manfred Sack: After the great destruction. In: time online. Die Zeit, October 14, 2004, accessed on May 12, 2020 (German).
^ Michael S. Falser: Mourning work on ruins, categories of reconstruction after 1945 . In: Michael Braun, Ursula Baus (Ed.): Reconstruction in Germany, positions on a controversial topic . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0067-5 , pp. 60-98 .
↑ Jeffry M. Diefendorf: In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II, Organizing Reconstruction . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-507219-7 , pp. 243 .
↑ Christian Welzbacher: The reconstruction of the Frankfurt Goethe House. In: The Old City ”. Quarterly magazine for urban history, urban sociology, monument preservation and urban development. 33rd year, 2006, issue 4, pp. 317-330. schlossdebatte.de, December 14, 2008, accessed on February 26, 2017 .
^ Ralf Dorn: Anne Schmedding: Dieter Oesterlen (1911-1994). In: Anne Schmedding, Dieter Oesterlen (1911-1994), Tradition and Contemporary Space, Wasmuth Tübingen, ISBN 978-3-8030-0744-5 . Art-HIST network for art history on h-net, 2011, accessed on February 26, 2017 .
↑ David Kasparek: Closed circle. In: The Architect. BDA, February 10, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2017 .
↑ Winfried Nerdinger: The duration of the stones and the memory of the architects . In: Peter Reichl, Harald Schmid, Peter Steinbach (eds.): National Socialism, The Second Story . Ch.Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58342-1 .
↑ Ulrich Conrads: Time of the labyrinth, observe-reflect-determine 1956-2006 . In: Ulich Conrads and Peter Neitzke (eds.): Bauwelt Fundamente . tape 136 . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-7643-7821-2 , pp. 197 .
↑ Ulrich Conrads and Peter Neitzke (eds.): The cities open to the sky, speeches and reflections on the reconstruction of what was lost and the return of the new building in 1948/49 . Bauwelt Foundations, No. 125 . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6903-5 , pp. 8 .

[1] Manfred Sack: After the great destruction. In: time online. Die Zeit, October 14, 2004, accessed on May 12, 2020 (German).

[2] Michael S. Falser: Mourning work on ruins, categories of reconstruction after 1945 . In: Michael Braun, Ursula Baus (Ed.): Reconstruction in Germany, positions on a controversial topic . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0067-5 , pp. 60-98 .

[3] Jeffry M. Diefendorf: In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II, Organizing Reconstruction . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-507219-7 , pp. 243 .

[4] Christian Welzbacher: The reconstruction of the Frankfurt Goethe House. In: The Old City ”. Quarterly magazine for urban history, urban sociology, monument preservation and urban development. 33rd year, 2006, issue 4, pp. 317-330. schlossdebatte.de, December 14, 2008, accessed on February 26, 2017 .

[5] Ralf Dorn: Anne Schmedding: Dieter Oesterlen (1911-1994). In: Anne Schmedding, Dieter Oesterlen (1911-1994), Tradition and Contemporary Space, Wasmuth Tübingen, ISBN 978-3-8030-0744-5 . Art-HIST network for art history on h-net, 2011, accessed on February 26, 2017 .

[6] David Kasparek: Closed circle. In: The Architect. BDA, February 10, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2017 .

[7] Winfried Nerdinger: The duration of the stones and the memory of the architects . In: Peter Reichl, Harald Schmid, Peter Steinbach (eds.): National Socialism, The Second Story . Ch.Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58342-1 .

[8] Ulrich Conrads: Time of the labyrinth, observe-reflect-determine 1956-2006 . In: Ulich Conrads and Peter Neitzke (eds.): Bauwelt Fundamente . tape 136 . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-7643-7821-2 , pp. 197 .

[9] Ulrich Conrads and Peter Neitzke (eds.): The cities open to the sky, speeches and reflections on the reconstruction of what was lost and the return of the new building in 1948/49 . Bauwelt Foundations, No. 125 . Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6903-5 , pp. 8 .