by Jon Lackman | 29 August 2006 | Architecture, Books
Theodor Fischer Prize-winner Christian Welzbacher has published his research on the state architecture of the Weimar Republic, which was torn between tradition and modernity. Political instability, among other things, doomed efforts to define a state style (Jürgen Tietz). It was not the young avant-garde of the Bauhaus or Werkbund, but older, more measured modernists who got the commissions (Ulrike Schuster). Welzbacher refutes the idea that consistent connections can be made between form and meaning, emphasizing the importance of context in making these determinations.
