German Architecture for a Mass Audience
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 19, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415173278
First sentence: In 1938 the German architect Rudolf Schwarz described the way in which the experience of standing in a ring affects those who participate in it: In the closed form of the ring the arcing movement which originated it circles incessantly ahead, an inner stream of power which constantly renews and unifies the figure, just as the warmly circulating blood sustains and enlivens the human body.