The Medieval Masons' Lodge as Paradigm for Peter Behrens's Dombauhtte in Munich, 1922

• Autores: Ross Anderson
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 90, Nº 3, 2008, págs. 441-465
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Peter Behrens’s enigmatic Dombauhtte at the 1922 German Exhibition of Applied Arts has received little scholarly attention. A small masonry pavilion revealing heavily sublimated iconographic references, it embodies aspirations for cultural renewal that have attended the motif of the medieval masons’ lodge since Romanticism: the deep metabolism of religious life is imported into aesthetics as a Gesamtkunstwerk. In the absence of built and photographic resources, recourse is made for the first time to folios of Behrens’s drawings. These make possible a complete rendering of the building, which uncovers the underlying geometric order governing the plan, elevation, and disposition of artifacts.