Hans Hansen (architect)

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Hans Hansen (1889, Roetgen – 1966, Cologne) was a German architect and theorist and one of the correspondents of Bruno Taut's utopian expressionist chain letter, the Glass Chain. Hansen contributed under the pseudonym Antischmitz.[1][2]

In 1920 he attracted the attention and praise of Bruno Taut after the publication of his book "The Experience of Architecture" (Das Erlebnis der Architektur). Hansen later went on to become one of Germany's leading church architects.[2]

Published work

  • "The Experience of Architecture" (Das Erlebnis der Architektur) 1920
  • "The Building Yard" (Der Bauhof), essay published in "Call to Building", published as part of the "New Objectivity or New Building (lit.)" (Neues Bauen) exhibition in May 1920.

Citations

  1. ↑ Canadian Centre for Architecture
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Benson, p.292

References

  • Whyte, Iain Boyd, ed. and trans. 'The Crystal Chain Letters' (Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1985), 182.
  • Benson, Timothy. O. (et al.); Dimenberg, Edward (2001-09-17). Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism). University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23003-5. 
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture
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