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The old, christian, preindustrial, predemocratic way of life has progressively broken away around modern man so that he has come to stand in a place no human beings have ever quite occupied before. He has become at once a tiny atom in a cast sea of humanity and an individual who recognizes himself as being utterly alone.
— Vincent Scully, “The Architecture of Democracy”
Thus beyond the convulsion of overproduction a state can be born of calm in which a world takes shape without products.
— Superstudio
House at Mathildenhohe.
Architect: Peter Behrens.
The Behrens’ house in the Darmstadt artists’ colony betrays his connection with Jugendstil. It foreshadows the rational synthesis between design and industry that he would achieve later as a leading figure of the Deutsche Werkbund. In 1901, Behrens was still transforming himself from a Jugendstil artist into an architect via interior decoration. Following the philosophy of Nietzsche, Behrens and his contemporaries believed that art could address the huge social and economic questions of modern life which characterized Wilhelminian Germany.
It is the pervading law of all things organic, and inorganic,
of all things physical and metaphysical,
of all things human and all things super-human,
of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.
of all things physical and metaphysical,
of all things human and all things super-human,
of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.
— Louis Sullivan, Architect.
