Description
| Product ID: | 9783775755207 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Warburg Models |
| Subtitle: | Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge |
| Authors: | Author: Mari Lending, Tim Anstey |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: professional practice, Architecture: professional practice |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An Edifice of Ideas Architectural patronage was crucial for the thinking of Aby Warburg and his circle. In Hamburg the purpose-designed Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, completed in 1926, organized Warburg’s remarkable library. From 1927 Warburg developed ideas about orientation in the radical transformation of a disused water tower into the Hamburg Planetarium. After the Warburg Institute transferred to London in 1933 this pattern of seminal architectural commissioning continued, including projects designed by the avant-garde practice Tecton during the 1930s, and culminating in the construction of the library’s present home at Woburn Square, Bloomsbury in 1958. Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge follows this history, using archive photographs, architectural drawings and a series of architectural models to show how the Warburg scholars projected a connection between their own physical occupancy of architectural space and their shared ideas about intellectual order, cultural survival, and memory. |
| Imprint Name: | Hatje Cantz |
| Publisher Name: | Hatje Cantz |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-07 |