A Study On The History Of German Architecture Exhibition

As an important part of the study on world architecture, modern German architecture holds an extremely important position in the research of world architectural history. Adopting the perspective of instant historical research, this dissertation starts from the typical architectural exhibition cases in different eras of architectural development in Germany such as Darmstadt Exhibition, Cologne Exhibition, Exhibition of Weimar Bauhaus Architecture, Weissenhof Exhibition, Hansa Viertel International Exhibition, IB A Berlin’87and Architecture Exhibition. On the basis of these individual cases, this study attempts to explore the driving force for the formation and development of modern German architecture and draw a general evolutionary path of German architectural exhibitions.Through the review of the instant architectural exhibitions, the dissertation elaborates on the the history background in the field of German architecture from the19th to the21st century, i.e."individuals and groups emergence, confrontation of different ideas, self-reflection, self-correction, and self-innovation", systematically sorts out the architectural design philosophies, architecture styles, architects, urban studies and architectural theories and criticisms of the modern German architecture over various periods. In general, the study exerts to explore the reasons, discuss the results, and discover the trends.This study probes into the profound academic value and connotation of German architectural exhibitions, aiming at relating the development of modern German architecture to its significant theoretical features of architectural exhibitions, i.e. "extract, enunciation, display and guide", which constitutes the core of the study. The significance of enlightenment, formation and propagation of German architectural culture is expounded in terms of comparing the architectural practices exhibitions, the academic exhibitions and architecture museums.The dissertation consists of four parts. The first part begins with the1901Darmstadt Exhibition and the1914Deutsche Werkbund Architectural Exhibition, and studies the German architecture in its infancy under the influence of arts and crafts movement and the new art movement contemporaneously.The second part maintains that the three architectural exhibitions in German Bauhaus Weimar period and the1927Weissenhof Exhibition jointly shaped the model of modernist architecture, and discusses their influence on the international-style architecture.On the background of German reconstruction after World War Ⅱ, the third part elaborates on the functionalist architecture characteristics shown in the1957Lufthansa community architectural exhibition, analyzes the influence of conflicts caused by the postwar modernist architecture and urban planning on Berlin87’architectural exhibition, puts forward the future urban planning rules to fix the city on the principle of "critical reconstruction", and displays the characteristic of diversified architectural styles.Part four analyzes and expounds the limitations of modernist architecture being fiercely discussed in Germany on the theoretical basis of the1984’revised modernist architecture’exhibition in Frankfurt Architecture Museum, and brings forward the evaluation and analysis on exhibitions of German architects’architectural practices from the1960s to1980s. It also elaborates in this part from the historical appraisal perspective the constant transformation of self-improvement, self-correction and multi-dimensional innovations influenced by western humanistic architectural theory, with the main thread of "revised postmodernist architecture" exhibition and other relevant academic exhibitions. In addition, it discusses the mutual-complementary combination model of German architectural practices exhibitions and academic exhibitions.