![]() "Der Erste Weltkrieg brachte die praktische Tätigkeit Tauts zum Erliegen. (Kenneth Frampton, in the Avery s Choice, # 335, p. This phantasmagoric ferro-vitreous vision was brought down to earth in Taut s more pragmatic Arbeitsrat für Kunst program (1919) a tract that would go on to provide the substance for the Bauhaus declaration of the same year. Taut advocated retreating to the Alps, as an unspoiled Nirvana in which to begin our civilization anew. Strongly affected by Scheerbart s visionary insistence that the emergence of a totally new spiritual, anarcho-socialism, the new liberated culture would depend upon building in nothing but colored glass. Alpine Architektur in conjunction with Die Stadtkrone, published in the same year, embodies the first full polemical statement of this position. Influenced by the anarchist poet Paul Scheerbart and by the proto-Expressionist climate of Berlin, Taut adopted anti-industrial, antimilitaristic stance both before and after the First World War. The title page of this book carries the Latin tag Aedificare necesse est, vivere non est necesse, thereby making the polemical assertion that building is of greater import than life. This is Taut´s most exclusive and sought after work, which caused a great sensation when it appeared in 1919. ![]() ![]() ![]() Original textured thick paper wrappers decorated and lettered in silver. Hagen im Folkwang-Verlag 1919.Title, list of plates, 5 intertitle and twenty-two tipped-in monochrome plates and 8 colour plates. ![]()
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