Stressing Wachsmann
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Edited by:
Klaus Bollinger
About this book
Konrad Wachsmann – Structural forms
In 1951, Konrad Wachsmann and his department at the IIT received a commission from the US Air Force to investigate no less than a completely new method of construction based on the structural models he had already developed.
The iconographic model of the US Air Force Hangar developed from this work was a true “turning point in building”: the structure designed represents an almost futurist promise of a fully industrialized building culture, the conceptual image of which also became the direct inspiration for various architectural avant-gardes.
Stressing Wachsmann attempts to finally place Konrad Wachsmann’s achievement appropriately in architectural history and to critically compare the mental and material conditions involved in the construction of buildings at that time and today.
- A “turning point in building”: an analytical appraisal of Konrad Wachsmann’s contribution to architectural history
- International authors, unpublished documents from the estate
- Edition Angewandte book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Author / Editor information
Klaus Bollinger, Florian Medicus, both: Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Reviews
„Stressing Wachsmann unternimmt den Versuch, Konrad Wachsmanns Leistung für die Architekturgeschichte endlich angemessen zu verorten und dabei auch die geistigen wie materiellen Bedingungen des Konstruierens von damals und heute kritisch miteinander zu vergleichen.“ (In BAUSUBSTANZ, 01.2021)
„Beginnend mit einer heute nicht mehr unbedingt erwartbaren schonen Haptik aus Leineneinband und Kartonage uber die clevere Platzierung des englischen Textes vorne und des deutschen Pendants hinten – getrennt durch seitlich eingezogene Bildseiten – bis hin zu eben jener reichen Bebilderung, fur die das Konrad-Wachsmann-Archiv der Berliner Akademie der Kunste zur Verfugung stand: ein in der direkten Bedeutung schönes Buch.“ (Bernhard Hauke in Stahlbau aktuell, 2021)
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Manufacturer information:
Im Westfeld 8
CH-4055 Basel
Switzerland
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EU responsible person:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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10785 Berlin
