Modernism and the Spirit of the City (Hardcover)

Introduction. Part I Geist. 1.From locus genii to Heart of the City: Embracing the Spirit of the City. 2. Straight or Crooked Streets? The Contested Rational Spirit of the Modern Metropolis. 3. August Endell: The Spirit and the Beauty of the City. Part II Place. 4. Embodying the Spirit of the Metropolis: the Warenhaus Wetheim, Berlin. 5. The Hamburg Bismarck as City Crown and National Monument. 6. The Lantern and the Glass: On the Themes of Renewal and Dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist Art and Architecture. Part III Faith. 7. "Cities More Fair to Become the Dwelling Place of Thy Children": Transcendent Modernity in British Urban Reconstruction. 8. Privet: Theologies of Privacy in Some Modernist Urbanism. 9. Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt and the Reconstruction of Cologne. Bibliography. Index.