Erich mendelsohn

ERICH MENDELSOHN

SUBMITTED BY:• SAKSHI AGGARWAL• PRASHANT SHISHODIA(IDEAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, GHAZIABADB.ARCH III YEAR)

INTRODUCTION He was a Jewish German architect, known for

his expressionist architecture in the 1920s. These early experiences generated a personal

philosophy of "Dynamism" that demonstrated an attitude that was both expressionistic and personal in nature.

Mendelsohn used no historical precedents in formulating his designs. As a result, his early buildings avoid the eclectic borrowing that mark so many of his contemporaries. Indeed, his architectural ideas were derived from expressionistic sketches and romantic symbolism

ERICH MENDELSOHN(21 MARCH 1887 – 15 SEPTEMBER

1953)Source: britannica.com/biography/Erich-Mendelsohn

He was known initially for his Einstein Tower, a notable example of German Expressionism in architecture, and later for his use of modern materials and construction methods to make what he saw as organically unified buildings.

At the end of world war 1, he settled his practice in Berlin.

In 1924, along with Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, he was one of the founders of the progressive architectural group known as Der Ring (group formed with objective of promoting Modernist Architecture).

In 1933, his fortune was seized by the Nazis and he fled to England.

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THE MENDELSOHN HOUSE, POLAND

HAT FACTORY, LUCKENWALDE, GERMANY

EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE An architectural movement developed

in Europe during first decades of 20th century.

Characteristics: Distortion of form for an emotional effect. Subordination of realism to symbolic or

stylistic expression of inner experience. An underlying effort at achieving the

new, original, and visionary. Abundance of works on paper, and

models, with discovery and representations of concepts more important than pragmatic finished products.

Often hybrid solutions, irreducible to a single concept.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO

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EINSTEIN TOWER, GERMANY

EINSTEIN TOWER (ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY)

Built from 1919 to 1921 in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany .

Erich Mendelsohn took inspiration from Einstein’s theory of relativity where light bends around objects due to imposed gravitational forces.

A new monolithic concrete tower which aimed to streamline exteriors with organically flowing interiors that defied traditional structural law.

The main body of the Einstein Tower was built as a brick substructure covered with reinforced cast-in-place concrete.

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The rounded off corners of the tower emphasize the continuity of the form.

The tower gets slightly thicker at the base because of structural requirements and yet the proportions of the building naturally change with the Increase in size.

Mendelsohn noted the natural shape change when brick had to be included in the foundation for extra support. Each element shifted where it needed to in the overall form for aesthetic balance.


Here is the only part of the exterior building that has any right angles.

This portion of the building has grass growing on the exterior walls to help mask the abrupt right angles.

Mendelsohn aimed at dynamic construction.

RIGHT ANGLES COVERED WITH GRASS


RIGHT ANGLES COVERED WITH GRASS PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN WITH RIGHT ANGLES

The conceptual program was perhaps more complex than the functional one: Mendelsohn consciously strove to make a design devoid of right angles, that was molded rather than built, and that architecturally expressed the dynamic interchange of mass and energy inherent in Einstein’s theory of relativity”

CURVES OF THE BUILDING FROM HUMAN BODY DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE


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