Die Tektonik der Hellenen: Kontext und Wirkung der Architekturtheorie von Karl Bötticher - Hardcover

TEXT IN GERMAN. Tectonics is back on the agenda for contemporary architectural discussion. Up to now tectonics tended to be associated with the language of neo-Classical architecture, which seemed to have faded out because of the triumph of Modernism, but now the dogmas of Modernism are being questioned, interest is reviving in architecture using tectonic design principles. So DIE TEKTONIK DER HELLENEN, Botticher's main work published in 1844-52, does not just provide a theory of tectonic form that is still estimable today, it also contains a theory about the central problem of the 19th century, that of taking over the stylistic forms of past epochs.

Hartmut Mayer studied architecture and town planning at the University of Stuttgart and philosophy at the University of Tubingen. He works as an architect, specialising in planning public buildings.