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Hans Scharoun
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
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Additional information
Order number: 715
The least well-known period of German architect Hans Scharoun's career is his work in the 1930s. After the First World War he had emerged as an Expressionist; he soon moved on to the International Style, but unusually he did not abandon the sculptural and `expressionistic' elements of his early work. Here we look at three houses he built during the thirties; unlike many of his contemporaries, Scharoun stayed in Germany and continued to practice under the Nazis, although in a restricted capacity. The Schminke house of 1933 must be one of the last great International Style buildings in Germany; however, the Scharf and Mohrmann houses, designed in 1939, show Scharoun reverting to vernacular forms and materials on the exteriors while creating some of the most exciting open-plan interiors of the modern movement.
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Credits -
Director
Nick Levinson
Presenter/Writer
Tim Benton
Open University/BBC
