Books by Carsten Krohn

Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) gehört zu den vielseitigsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk verbindet die Gegensätze von organischem und rationalem Bauen, von technologischer Innovation und einer regionalistischen Haltung, von individueller Form und einem universalen Ausdruck. Auch nach seiner Emigration aus Deutschland 1933 über England und Palästina in die USA bleibt er einflussreich bis heute. Die umfassende Monografie dokumentiert sämtliche 70 bekannten, realisierten Bauten Mendelsohns in Text und Bild. Sie setzt sich in zwei Essays aber auch mit den ungebauten Projekten auseinander. Ein neu erstelltes Werkverzeichnis listet sämtliche Arbeiten auf. Zahlreiche neue Fotografien Carsten Krohns, neu gezeichnete Pläne sowie historische Abbildungen illustrieren die Publikation.

Hans Scharoun is one of the most important architects of the 20th century; as a proponent of organic architecture, he created unconventional and imaginative buildings which adapt to usersΓÇÖ needs in a dynamic way. His oeuvre includes family residences and housing estates but also encompasses the German embassy in Brazil, and urban icons such as the Berlin Philharmonie. The book, a cooperation with Baukunstarchiv (the architecture archive) of the Akademie der K├╝nste, Berlin, documents the entire range of known completed buildings by Scharoun, including, for the first time, early works in East Prussia. The specially taken photographs by Carsten Krohn, together with the historic photographs and plans from the Hans-Scharoun-Archive offer a new overview of this expressive organic architecture.

Hans Scharoun is one of the most important architects of the 20th century; as a proponent of organic architecture, he created unconventional and imaginative buildings which adapt to usersΓÇÖ needs in a dynamic way. His oeuvre includes family residences and housing estates but also encompasses the German embassy in Brazil, and urban icons such as the Berlin Philharmonie. The book, a cooperation with Baukunstarchiv (the architecture archive) of the Akademie der K├╝nste, Berlin, documents the entire range of known completed buildings by Scharoun, including, for the first time, early works in East Prussia. The specially taken photographs by Carsten Krohn, together with the historic photographs and plans from the Hans-Scharoun-Archive offer a new overview of this expressive organic architecture.

This essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them from the present day persepctive and rediscovers the inspiring architecture of a great modern master. The book presents eighty of Mies' works in chronological order. Approximately thirty of these works are analyzed in detail in three parts. In the first part, the construction is documented in its built state; for this all the ground plans were redrawn by the author. The second part outlines the changes to the buildings and the third part develops the results of this investigation with regard to their relevance to the contemporaryview of Mies' work.