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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Hans-Georg von Arburg Abstract In early twentieth-century Germany a population explosion in its big cities created a housing crisis. A widespread and heavily medialized debate prompted a search for solutions and triggered a rhetoric of the last dwelling. From large communal estates to subsistence...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figures 11–12. Egon Eiermann and Robert Hilger, housing in Buchen and Waldrün near Hettingen, 1946–49. Saai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eiermann bequest EE#071_VP_D_A and Eiermann BSIII. More
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 93–107.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between the two circumstances. From inside a unit that the preeminent postwar psychoanalyst and critic Alexander Mitscherlich helped plan for the developer Neue Heimat Städtebau in Emmertsgrund, outside Heidelberg in Germany’s southwest, it articulates a critique of his pedagogical foray into mass housing...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and modernism conditionally. In architecture, “modernization” resulted in the invention of new materials and construction or production methods (technology), and the design challenge of new building types like railroad stations, airports, and public housing. “Modernism” refers to the corresponding aesthetic...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Michael Althen, Claudius Seidl, and Andreas Kilb. They looked askance at the formal complexity and political activism of most art house fare and above all found themselves smitten by mainstream American features. Taking their cue from Susan Sontag and her essay “Against Interpretation,” these postmodern...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Figures 11–12. Egon Eiermann and Robert Hilger, housing in Buchen and Waldrün near Hettingen, 1946–49. Saai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eiermann bequest EE#071_VP_D_A and Eiermann BSIII. ...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 135–153.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in shaping them and about the subsequent transformations of the narratives. The evidence points to the importance of both Allies and Germans as actors, to a powerful dialectic of the rubbled space where myth formulation and claims to legitimacy could be found in areas such as housing allocation...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 207–230.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Matthew Philpotts The first major government building to be completed in Berlin by the National Socialist regime, later the House of Ministries in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and now the seat of the Federal Finance Ministry, the Reich Aviation Ministry is an archetypal palimpsest site...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of an aesthetics of “failure” that observes das Bilderverbot , veils a messianic vision of justice. Benjamin's gnostic picture of modernity as a bureaucratic prison house reflects Josef K.'s victimized view of his situation in The Trial . Hans Blumenberg's therapeutic account of myth suggests a view of Kafka's...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 4. (left) “On the Left,” “Olympische Straße,” “On the Right,” “Steubenplatz.” (right) “House Entrance.” More
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 7. The dedication page of the album gifted to Gerda von der Porten (later Ottenstein): “To my dear Gerda, in memory of your parents’ and [your] birth house in Hamburg Mittelweg 118. May 1938.” Courtesy of the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg. More
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 7–39.
Published: 01 November 2006
... architect Bruno Tautʼs theoretical writings in Japan and Turkey and analyze his own house in Istanbul through the lens of these theories. Even though recent scholarship has established that the architecture of the early twentieth century was much more complex, diverse, and multifaceted than...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
... legal codes fostered speculative investment in real estate. Ground rent rose faster than incomes, especially for the working class. This fact forced them to accept housing that was “unable to meet modest health and ethical standards.” 25 Housing supply lagged significantly behind demand, especially...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 109–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Figure 4. (left) “On the Left,” “Olympische Straße,” “On the Right,” “Steubenplatz.” (right) “House Entrance.” ...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by both the urban plan- ning and memory discourses of the GDR state, interested as it was in neither the preservation of the existing housing stock nor the political capital to be derived from commemorating past Jewish experience. As a location disre- garded by the “synchronic” gaze of the state...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 209–233.
Published: 01 November 2006
... people, the royal house had only a lim- ited idea of who constituted the people. Standing before the imposing facade of the National Gallery, it seems diffi cult to dispute the claim that it “rarely, if ever, occurred to the middle and lower classes to enter these forbidding pan- theons of art...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
Published: 01 August 2012
... architect opportunistically acquires the lakeside property of his unfortunate Jewish neighbors before World War II, thereby expanding the grounds of his house, which he built near the lake, the Schar- mützelsee, in 1936 (HS, 61). The house and its gardens provide the focal point of the narrative...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2017
... a trove of mainly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European paintings and drawings in the Munich apartment and Salzburg house of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of the prominent art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt. The elder Gurlitt had worked for the Nazis but also counted a number of artists...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the unified Federal Republic, was particularly marked by depopulation and dilapi- dation of old state-owned property in the former East. These urban spaces had become central to the speculation of the creative economy. In extreme forms German urban settings experienced dynamics that affected the housing...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 81–95.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in which a lone figure (Robert Mitchum) hobbles away from an empty rodeo arena. Arriving at a dilapidated farmhouse and finding the front door locked, he walks around to the back and retrieves from under the house an old rodeo program, a six-shooter without handgrips, and a small tobacco tin...