Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture

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STYLE-ARCHITECTURE
AND BUILDING-ART
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TEXTS & DOCUMENTS
STYLE-ARCHITECTURE
AND BUILDING-ART:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
AND ITS PRESENT CONDITION
HERMANN MUTHESIUS
INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION
BY STANFORD ANDERSON
THE GETTY CENTER PUBLICATION PROGRAMS
Julia Bloomfield, Thomas F. Reese, Salvatore Settis, Editors
Kurt W. Forster, Consultative Editor, TEXTS & DOCUMENTS
TEXTS & DOCUMENTS
Architecture
Harry F. Mallgrave, Editor
Style-Architecture and Building-Art:
Transformations of Architecture
in the Nineteenth Century
and Its Present Condition
Julius Posener, Editorial Consultant
Lynne Kostman, Managing Editor
Michelle Ghaffari, Manuscript Editor
Published by The Getty Center
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for the History of Art and the Humanities
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Permission to publish
an English translation of
Stilarchitektur und Baukunst
has been granted by Eckart Muthesius.
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is to be found on the last
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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STANFORD ANDERSON—INTRODUCTION
1
HERMANN MUTHESIUS—
STYLE-ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING-ART:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
AND ITS PRESENT CONDITION
45
BIBLIOGRAPHY
107
INDEX
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe a special debt of gratitude to Harry Mallgrave for his thorough editing of both
the translation of Stilarchitektur und Baukunst and my essay on that work. Professor
Julius Posener of Berlin gave me welcome assurance through his appreciative reading
of the essay. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hubrich of Everswinkel, Germany, kindly provided
a copy of the second edition of Stilarchitektur, and my colleague Dr. Akos Mora-
vanszky always made himself available for consultation.
The library of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Kunst-
bibliothek in Berlin, the Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, the Rotch Library of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor Werner Oechslin of Einsied-
eln, Switzerland, generously supplied copies of Stilarchitektur and other materials
by or on Hermann Muthesius.
My assistants at MIT, Anne Simunovic and Samuel Isenstadt, endured every request.
I am also grateful for the careful and solicitious efforts of those associated with the
Getty Center: Julia Bloomfield, Michelle Ghaffari, Lynne Kostman, and Tyson Gas-
kill. My thanks also to the designer of this volume, Lorraine Wild.
—S.A.