Arhitektura i Urbanizam (Jan 2009)
Architecture and ideology: A new unity: Germany 1918-1945
Abstract
The link between politics and ideology on the one hand and art, or architecture in fact, on the other has often been thought of as a bad thing something that 'spoils' the art. This work, by using the example of Germany between the two World Wars, tries to represent art as an integrated part of all social, political, economic and historical movements in a society. In that light, Bauhaus and Nazi architecture are not seen as good or bad exceptions in the history of architecture, but as a natural course, the reasons and direct inducements of which can be traced in any part of a society. However, by that, the individual and irrational in art should not to be denied, but there should be put an accent on continuity of architectural thought and art before everything.
