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by Matthias Schirren. Munich: Prestel, 2004, 128 pages, $39.95.
Alpine Architektur, Bruno Taut's utopian blueprint for a post-World War I world, was first published less than a decade after Wright's Wasmuth Portfolio and only three years before Le Corbusier's Vers Une Architecture. Yet its 30 plates have never been printed in large format until now. The bilingual Prestel edition makes this important Expressionist document readily available.
Besides his theoretical works, Taut is best remembered for the Britz Horseshoe Settlement in Berlin and for the Glass House at the...