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