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Beteilige Person:	Führ, Eduard 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Paper
Sprache:	Deutsch
Veröffentlicht:	2022
Schlagwörter:	Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete > 1897-2000 Geschichte 1880-1930 Frankfurter Küche Architekturtheorie Architektur Zweck Funktion
Abstract:	Since the middle of the 19th century, theorists of architecture have been thinking intensively about purpose and function. is shows the awareness that architecture is related to everyday life and action. e question of the character of architecture as art has been neglected. Towards the end of the 19th century, some architects militantly opposed the traditions and described them as ‘degenerate’, as a restriction of freedom and culture, as an inecient waste of national wealth. In return, those attacked in this way defended themselves and accused the ‘functionalists’ of technical incompetence, but also of giving up cultural identity, of the neglect of higher values, of a lack of symbolic exaggerations and reduction to the purely technical. My aim is on the one hand to reconstruct the terms ‘purpose’ and ‘function’ from the source texts, and on the other hand to pose the question of the artistic character of a functionalist building. I will criticise the one-dimensionality of ‘functionalist’ thinking and move from the cognitive conceptualisation of ‘purpose’ to the materiality of an ‘instrument’ and its everyday use and from ‘function’ to ‘situation’. Usually the theory of an architectural ‘functionalism’ and the theory of architecture as building art see each other in diametrical opposition. e essay discusses how this contradiction can be overcome through concrete and critical analyses of so-called ‘functionalist’ architecture and of the simple understanding of art as ‘concinnitas’.
Umfang:	Pläne
ISBN:	978-3-96182-102-0