Year Zero to Economic Miracle
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A close look at the work and influence of German architects Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf.West German architecture underwent a phase of intense productivity from 1949 to 1964. In the immediate postwar years, architects confronted Nazi legacies in building culture amidst drastic privation that hampered construction. As industrial production recovered and a middle-class nation emerged, so too did a new architecture influenced by the American International Style model, especially as Bauhaus masters returned to Germany from the United States as advisers. But there was much more at stake than style. Construction details and other technical documents reveal that this was a moment when architectural practice aspired to calibrate social, material, and political norms through design.
As Lynnette Widder shows in Year Zero to Economic Miracle, at the center of all these transformations were Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf, two architects who shared political, religious, and professional allegiances. Schwippert, the architect of the new Bonn parliament, worked to align economic redevelopment and a burgeoning consumer goods industry with design. Ruf, to whom Schwippert directed the commission for West Germany’s first World’s Fair pavilion, found ways to master architectural construction amidst both scarcity and largess. With photographs, drawings, and a broad range of unpublished documents, this book introduces these architects to an English-language audience.Lynnette Widder is an architectural historian and practicing architect as well as associate professor at Columbia University in sustainability management.
1. Bootstrapping Modernism: Bundeshaus 1949
2. A Yearning for the Workshop, the Construction Site, the Finished
Work: Akademie der Künste
Job Books
3. Space Reconsidered: The Darmst dter Gespr ch of 1951
4. Harassed by Worldview: The Bauhaus Debate of 1953
U. C.
5. Die Welt des kleinen Mannes: The West German Pavilion at the
Brussels World’s Fair, 1958
6. “New, Clean, and Spectacular”: The Allure of American Architecture
in West Germany and the Influence of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
The Ruf Family Archive
7. An Architecture of Civil Service: Sep Ruf’s Hochschule für
Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer
8. “To Stand for Uncorrupted Form Where Corrupted Form Fills the
Market”: Hans Schwippert’s Renovation of the Hedwigskathedrale in
Berlin
Construction Drawings
Conclusions: Year Zero, Verso
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