The Word on the Street Architectural Criticism

• Published in: The Meaning of Modern Architecture pp. 95 - 112
• Main Author: Morgenthaler, Hans Rudolf
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2015; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Art styles: c 1960; History of architecture; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Theory of architecture; Theory of art; Das Problem Der Form; Julius Posener; Spatial Feeling; Wertheim Department Store; Das Kunstblatt; Wölin; Deutsche Bauzeitung; 18th Century Architect; Building Volume; Tugendhat House; Alois Riegl; Artistic Volition; Lms; Wasmuths Monatshefte; Dutch Group Portrait; Eclectic Architecture; Architectural Magazines; Paul Westheim; Bismarck Monument; Exterior Lead; Fischer Von Erlach; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye; Barcelona Pavilion; Compositional Excesses
• ISBN: 9781138572348; 9781472453013; 1138572349; 1472453018
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315555669-8

The four previous chapters laid out a fertile methodical approach to the interpretation of Modernist architecture. The theories summarized in these chapters were proposed by artists, art historians, and psychologists. Was this new approach actually noticed anywhere in the world of architecture? Were the new theories also accepted by professional critics? And, did the architects themselves realize that they created and presented something new, something unfamiliar? A survey of the major art and architectural magazines and journals published in Germany and Austria will provide answers to these questions. In addition, this perusal will also provide a chronological account of the introduction of the new architecture and the new interpretative methods.