Expressionist architecture - Designing Buildings - Share your construction industry knowledge. Expressionism emerged in Northern Europe in the early 20th century in poetry and painting, where it attempted to distort reality to express subjective, emotional experience. It quickly spread through all of the arts and architecture, pioneered by a group of architects from Germany, Austria and Denmark.
Image 1 of 16 from gallery of "Fragments of Metropolis": An Exploration of Berlin's Expressionist History. Photograph by Niels Lehmann & Christoph Rauhut
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Genuine (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) Set design by German Expressionist painter César Klein. (via)
Hoger could be regarded as one of the central figures of German expressionist architecture. His best recognised work is the Chilehaus in Ham...
Today, we define Expressionist buildings as any structure that displays the main qualities of this architectural movement, including fragmentation and
Copenhagen’s Grundtvig’s Church is a rare example of expressionist church architecture, and one of the most well-known churches in the Danish city. French photographer Ludwig Favre was attracted to the perpendicular lines that compose the early 20th-century structure, in addition to the nearly six million yellow bricks that fill its interior. Favre decided to shoot the building’s 1800-seat congregation, capturing the minimal ornamentation found in the famous church’s massive vaulted halls and nave. More
Photographer Ludwig Favre’s stunning photographs capture the beauty of Copenhagen’s Grundtvig’s Church—a rare example of expressionist church architecture.
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From Zaha Hadid’s majestic MAXII in Italy to the stunning beauty of Frank Gehry’s Vitra Design Museum, these structures elevate the environment they were built in
Lyudmila Agrich was born in Russia. After changing her place of residency several times, her family finally settled down in the beautiful city of Odessa in Ukraine by the Black Sea. As a child she got
Image 7 of 27 from gallery of The Bizarre Brutalist Church that Is More Art than Architecture. Photograph by Denis Esakov
