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Architecture of the Hitlerian Third Reich in Germany (1933–45), basically of three types: a stripped Neo-Classicism, as in works by Kreis and Speer; a vernacular style drawing on rural and ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)

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... architecture Architecture of the Hitlerian Third Reich in Germany ( 1933–45 ), basically of three types: a stripped Neo-Classicism , as in works by Kreis and Speer ; a vernacular style drawing on rural and especially Alpine types; and a simple, utilitarian, industrialized type for factories. Speer’s master-plan for the north–south axis of Berlin ( 1937–45 ) was unrealized, although his New Chancellery, Berlin (1938–9—demolished), was a fine essay in stripped Classicism with an ingenious plan. March ’s impressive Olympic Stadium, Berlin ( 1934–6 ),...

Nazi architecture

Nazi architecture  

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Architecture of the Hitlerian Third Reich in Germany (1933–45), basically of three types: a stripped Neo-Classicism, as in works by Kreis and Speer; a vernacular style drawing on rural and especially ...
19 The Electronic Book

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Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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... The * Imitation of Christ , one of the first bestsellers of the *Gutenberg revolution ( see 6 ). If Monks … also included an introduction to the White Rose, a clandestine group of young German students who were hunted down and summarily executed for distributing anti-Nazi *pamphlets they printed on a secret press. The choices in If Monks Had Macs … were prophetic: its metaphors of pre-print MS, early print, and marginal publishing not only introduced a new medium, but also set the intellectual and cultural paradoxes within which the e-book...

23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries

23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries   Reference library

Paul Hoftijzer

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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...Vereniging ter Bevordering van het Vlaamse Boekwezen, the counterpart of the Dutch Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels, in order to represent better the economic interests of Flemish publishers. World War II did not stop this development. During the Nazi occupation, Flemish publishers enjoyed remarkably more freedom than their colleagues in the north. This was due in part to differences in their administrative situations. Whereas The Netherlands had a civic government under complete German control, Belgium was governed by a...

Maurice Culot

Maurice Culot  

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(1939– ).Belgian architect and theorist. Opposed to wholesale redevelopment of European cities, he favoured the preservation of traditional urban structures. In 1969 he founded Archives ...
Totalitarian architecture

Totalitarian architecture  

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Supposedly the officially approved architecture of dictatorships, over-centralized governments, or political groups intolerant of opposition, especially that of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Stalinist ...
Eva Baer

Eva Baer  

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(b Berlin, 20 Feb. 1920).Israeli historian of Islamic art. Forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany in 1938, Baer spent the years of World War II in Palestine. She received ...
Paul Ludwig Troost

Paul Ludwig Troost  

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(1879–1934).German architect. He was a skilled decorator, designing the interiors of the North-German Lloyd liners in the 1920s and 1930s, but he is better known for his stripped Neo-Classical ...
Jan Zachwatowicz

Jan Zachwatowicz  

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(1900–83).Polish architect and architectural historian, a graduate of the School of Architecture, Warsaw (1930). In 1939 he became Director of the Department of Architecture, teaching students ...
Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt  

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(1891–1942).German engineer. He became under the Nazis in 1933 director of the construction of Autobahnen (motorways), and appointed Seifert as landscape-architect. Not a few motorway viaducts ...
Adolf Behne

Adolf Behne  

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(1885–1948).German architect, theorist, and critic. He was associated with the avant-garde before and after the 1914–18 war, and was involved in the Deutscher Werkbund, Arbeitsrat für Kunst, and ...
Clemens Holzmeister

Clemens Holzmeister  

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 (1886–1983) Austrian architect, a very prolific designer involved in over 650 projects.The Eichmann country house (Liztlberg Seewald, 1928) respected local building traditions, just as his designs ...
Marcello Piacentini

Marcello Piacentini  

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 (1881–1960) Italian architect, urban planner, and critic who became the most powerful figure in Italian architectural culture during the Fascist period (1922–43).In 1921 he founded Architettura e ...
Senmut

Senmut  

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(fl. c.1473 bc–c.1458bc).Ancient Egyptian courtier, associated with the co-Regency of Tutmosis III and Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1479–1458 c. bc), who either oversaw or was otherwise involved in the ...
Illustrierter Beobachter

Illustrierter Beobachter  

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1926–45),the Nazi Party's weekly magazine, launched in recognition of photojournalism's growing importance in German cultural and political life. From 1930 it became an important vehicle for the ...
Joe Heydecker

Joe Heydecker  

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(1916–97), German writer, photographer, and anti‐Naziwho, as a wartime conscript, using a 35 mm Kine‐Exakta, took over 1,000 private photographs of military life in west and east. But most notable ...
Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann  

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(1885–1957), German photographer and Nazi propagandist.The son and nephew of photographers, he worked in the Hoppé studio in London before setting up in Munich as a portraitist and photojournalist. ...
against-the-light photography

against-the-light photography  

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The mental images conjured up by this technique are striking and disparate: everything from pastoral landscapes reminiscent of Turner to Nazi propaganda photographs of storm troopers. Some are ...
stripped Classicism

stripped Classicism  

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Classical architecture from which mouldings, ornament, and details have been elided, leaving visible only the structural and proportional systems. Boullée, J. J. Burnet, F. Gilly, L. Krier, Ledoux, ...
Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun  

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 (1893–1972) German architect.Scharoun was the most significant German modernist to establish himself before the Nazi takeover, to remain in Germany, then re-emerge to a major career in the 1950s ...

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