I started this tumblr 2013 as a platform to visualize the research of my doctoral thesis „Vom Stil zum Programm. Friedrich Nietzsche und der Deutsche Werkbund“ (Towards a Programmatic Architecture. Friedrich Nietzsche and the German Werkbund), which analyzes the influence of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche upon the founding of the german German Werkbund in its early phase between 1907 and 1914. The research should open an alternative view of the intellectual fundamentals of architectural modernism, by focussing on the strong - but until today hidden - connections between the crisis of architecture at the end of the 19th century, the hope connected with an artistic life and the role model of the era of Attic tragedy postulated by Friedrich Nietzsche. At the end of 2018 the thesis, which was supervised by the Chair of architectural theory Gerd de Bruyn and the chair of architectural history Klaus Jan Philipp at the University of Stuttgart has finally been published. It can be viewed and downloaded HERE
Unfortunately for my english speaking readers the thesis is written and published in german, but on page 13 you can find an english written abstract to give you a short overview view of the work.
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