The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (1890–1954/1889–1972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiative and the Ring collective, they shaped, especially through their work with Alfons Anker, the development of Modernist architecture in the 1920s, as evidenced by their winning design for the layout of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. While their early work was anchored in utopian expressionism, a more objective attitude emerged later, based on the application of new architectural constructs.
The book documents all 40 of Hans und Wassili Luckhardt’s realized buildings. Two essays deal with the unbuilt and utopian projects. Newly taken photographs and newly drawn plans by Carsten Krohn complement the historical illustrations.
Pages: 160
Language: English
24 × 33 cm
120 b/w ill., 120 col. ill.
Publication: 17 Jun 2024
ISBN 978-3-0356-2721-3
Carsten Krohn was born in Hamburg and studied architecture, urban planning and art history at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, the University of Hamburg and at Columbia University in New York. He obtained a PhD in art history with a study on the reception of Buckminster Fuller in architecture. CarstenKrohn worked in the Berlin offices of Daniel Libeskind and Norman Foster and has taught at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin and as professor at Anáhuac University and at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is the author of books on the work of Peter Behrens, Mies van der Rohe, Hans Scharoun and Erich Mendelsohn, curated the exhibition Unbuilt Berlin and worked with Knut Klaßen on video projects. His photographs have been shown in various exhibitions.
Michele Stavagna studied architecture and the history of architecture at the Università IUAV in Venice, completing his doctorate in the History of Architecture and Urban Design in 2005 with a dissertation on the photobooks of Erich Mendelsohn in the context of his architectural work. He has taught Theory and History of Industrial Design at the Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) and lectures regularly at various European universities and at symposia in Europe, Israel and the USA. He is co-author (with Carsten Krohn) of Erich Mendelsohn – Buildings and Projects (Basel: Birkhäuser 2021), has written numerous articles on Erich Mendelsohn, Aldo Rossi and Baldassare Longhena and is editor and translator of the Italian edition of Die Baukunst der neuesten Zeit by Gustav Adolf Platz. Since 2005, Michele Stavagna lives and works in Berlin and is a correspondent for the magazine of the Association of German Architects (BDA) Die Architekt.