Bruno Taut: A Utopia

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Summary: Glorious!!!!
Review: This beautiful book is a translation, commentary and critical volume of Bruno Taut's Alpine Architecture. It illustrates and describes, each of the 30 drawings in Taut's original portfolio. The author has conducted extensive research at the Bruno Taut Archives in Berlin, and has produced a beautiful, careful and considered volume. In German and English, this book is fascinating, necessary and timely. I first learned of Bruno Taut from the exhibition catalogue "Expressionist Architecture"; it included reproductions of his exquisite drawings. This volume helps to bring more of this visionary artist to the English-speaking public (most of the scholarship on Taut was written in German and Italian). His writings, informed by the aftermath of WWI, are surprisingly current, if impractical. I have been moved by his writing and drawings and I am sure this book will be a great addition to your library.