International Workshop_(Re)building the Alps
Institute for the History and Theory of Art and Architecture
Start date: 7 November 2019
End date: 10 November 2019
International Workshop
organized by Roberto leggero (LabiSAlp) and Sonja Hildebrand (ISA)
Bruno Taut’s Die alpine Architektur was published in 1919. The book was written during the First World War, against a background of mass massacres and destruction. By placing himself “above the fray”, Taut turned his gaze towards the mountains and their peaks as a free area in which to express the constructive and edifying potentialities of the human being where human community could reconcile. A hundred years later, the book poses a series of huge problems, and involve many types of scholars.