Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape: Blood, Soil, Building

ISBN-13: 9781032276939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 376 str.

David H. Haney

Opis

This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape. It concludes by examining racial and nationalistic themes underlying cultural landscape concepts today.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. From Ratzel to Hitler: Biographical Influences, Geopolitics, and Cultural Landscape;  2. Veins of the Nation: The Nazi Autobahn as Geopolitical Propaganda Device;  3. From Sports Park to Sacred Grove: Embedding the Mass Spectacle in the German Landscape;  4. "Secret Societies Established in Broad Daylight": Symbolic Fortifications as Nazi Institutional Sites;  5. Venerating the Blood-Soaked Soil: Monumentalized Landscapes as Memorials;  Conclusion

O autorze

David H. Haney is an architectural historian whose research focuses on the relationship between architecture, landscape, ecology, and geography. His monograph on the German modernist landscape architect Leberecht Migge (1881–1935), When Modern was Green (Routledge, 2010), was the first study to reassert the critical role of ecological thinking in Weimar modern architecture. He received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (US) in 2005 and his Master of Environmental Design from Yale University (US) in 1995. From 2005 to 2018 he taught in the architecture schools of the University of Kent and Newcastle University in England. He has lectured widely and has been the recipient of a number of awards including a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2015–2016) and the SAH Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award (2013).