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Nietzsche and Architecture: The Grand Style for Modern Living

by Lucy Huskinson

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Nietzsche’s ideas in architectural history

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Nietzsche’s ideas in architectural history

Lucy Huskinson places Nietzsche’s philosophy in conversation with architecture, tracing both his ideas about architectural form and their later interpretations. The book moves from concepts such as rhythm, ornament, style and power to a varied historical legacy, including the crystal architecture associated with Bruno Taut and Peter Behrens, the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, Louis H. Sullivan’s pursuit of height, and Nazi architecture as cultural propaganda. This two-part structure connects philosophical questions to buildings, designs and movements in modern architecture. Its scope reaches from the 19th and early 20th centuries to questions about Nietzsche’s continuing relevance to architectural thought.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Nietzsche’s philosophy beyond conventional philosophical contexts
  • Readers studying modern architectural history and theory
  • Readers interested in connections between ideas, buildings and cultural movements

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Philosophy and architectureRhythm, ornament, style and powerNietzsche’s influence and contested legacyModern architectural movements

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Book overview

Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche's relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of architectural studies, architectural history, and theory.

Divided into two parts, the book first examines Nietzsche's philosophy of architecture, exploring his notions of rhythm, ornament, style, and power. It then goes on to examine Nietzsche's ambiguous architectural legacy, scrutinising iconic architects, thinkers, designs, and cultural movements to ascertain their relationship with Nietzschean ideas, from the crystal architecture of Bruno Taut and Peter Behrens, to the 'new styles' of the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, Louis H. Sullivan's desire for the heights, and the cultural propaganda of 'Nazi architecture'.

Clearly explaining the subtleties and complexities of Nietzsche's architectural thought, Nietzsche and Architecture provides an accessible insight into Nietzsche's philosophy and its significance to the development of modern architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries, shedding vital light on the continued relevance of Nietzsche to architecture today.

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