The anti-historicist historicism of German Romantic architecture

Journal article

Abstract:: Nineteenth-century German architecture was characterized by a conflict between the availability of multiple historically derivative styles and the demand for the establishment of a culturally appropriate normative one. This conflict resulted from an aesthetic historicism that posited the cultural specificity of architectural styles while simultaneously abstracting them from their original contexts. Because the same aesthetic, ideological, and functionalist claims could be and were advanced on behalf of different styles, the prolonged debate among German architectural writers and practitioners about which one should be favored proved irresolvable so long as it was assumed that a style must be historically referential.

Publication website:: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509585.2015.1092730

Language:: English
Keywords:: Greek architecture

French architecture

architectural theory

nineteenth-century architecture

German architecture

Gothic architecture

historicism

architectural style
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Deposit date:: 2015-09-20
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Copyright holder:: Taylor & Francis
Rights statement:: Copyright © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2015.1092730

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