The Advanced School of Collective Feeling

The reconstruction of a design concept of the 1920s and 1930s that has left an indelieble mark on the modern, domestic aesthetic as we know it

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the bodya phenomenon known in the 1920s and '30s as physical cultureand their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture's most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, and others. This obscure chapter in the modern movement gestures towards a remarkable synthesis of the individual and the collective, a perspective that holds enormous potential for articulating an architecture of today.

• Brings to light again a little-known movement within the physical culture-driven architectural avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s
• Highlights the mark the concept has left on modern domestic aesthetic as we know it and demonstrates its significance also for contemporary architecture and design

• Features previously unpublished archival photographs, diagrams, and redrawn plans

  Autorentext

  Nile Greenberg ist Architekt und sowohl Gründer von NILE wie auch Mitbegründer von ANY, zwei Architektur- und Designstudios in New York.

Matthew Kennedy lebt und arbeitet als Architekt, Autor und Architekturvermittlerlebt in Mexico City. Ehr lehrt zudem als Assistant Teaching Professor am Department of Architecture der Penn State University.

Klappentext

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body-a phenomenon known in the 1920s and '30s as "physical culture"-and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture's most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, and others. This obscure chapter in the modern movement gestures towards a remarkable synthesis of the individual and the collective, a perspective that holds enormous potential for articulating an architecture of today.