Ernst L. Freud, Architect

The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-233-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Space and Place

Ernst L. Freud (1892–1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where he and his friend Richard Neutra attended Adolf Loos’s private Bauschule, Freud practiced in Berlin and, after 1933, in London. Even though his work focused on domestic architecture and interiors, Freud was possibly the first architect to design psychoanalytical consulting rooms—including the customary couches—a subject dealt with here for the first time. By interweaving an account of Freud’s professional and personal life in Vienna, Berlin, and London with a critical discussion of selected examples of his domestic architecture, interior designs, and psychoanalytic consulting rooms, the author offers a rich tapestry of Ernst L. Freud’s world. His clients constituted a “Who’s Who” of the Jewish and non-Jewish bourgeoisie in 1920s Berlin and later in London, among them the S. Fischer publisher family, Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, the Spenders, and Julian Huxley. While moving within a social class known for its cultural and avant-garde activities, Freud refrained from spatial, formal, or technological experiments. Instead, he focused on creating modern homes for his bourgeois clients.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Welter, Volker M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Modern Bourgeois Domestic Architecture of the Weimar Republic

Modern Bourgeois Domestic Architecture

The Limits of Community, the Chances of Society

The Bourgeois Home, the 'Unknown Territory' of Modern Architecture?

Chapter 2. The Making of an Architect

Vienna, Austrian Capital of Art and Culture

Berggasse 19, Vienna

Studying Architecture in Vienna and Munich

Chapter 3. Going Modern with Rainer Maria Rilke and Adolf Loos

'Learning to See' with Rainer Maria Rilke

Adolf Loos and Bourgeois Wohnkultur

Chapter 4. Society Architect in Berlin

Weimar Germany

Weimar Republic Architecture

Setting up Home and Office in Berlin

'To live in Berlin and to build in the Holy Land'

Society Architect in Berlin

Chapter 5. Houses in and around Berlin

First Houses in Berlin

Relationships with Clients

The First Modern House

The Frank Country House near Berlin

More Houses in and near Berlin

Chapter 6. Couches, Consulting Rooms, and Clinics

Historiography of Psychoanalytic Consulting Rooms

The Primeval Consulting Room at Berggasse 19

Consulting Rooms and Couches in Berlin

Sanatorium Schloß Tegel

Psychoanalytic Spaces in London

Chapter 7. At Home in England

Going into Exile

Setting up Office in London

Houses in and around London

The Second World War and its Aftermath

Chapter 8. Family Architect

Berggasse in London

Family Homes in Berlin

A new Family Home in London

From Hiddensee to Hidden House

A Home for his Parents

Towards a Life without Architecture

Chapter 9. Architecture without Quality? Some Concluding Remarks

Selected List of Works

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Welter, Volker M.
Volker M. Welter is an architectural historian who has studied and worked in Germany, Scotland, and England. Currently he is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include domestic architecture, modern and contemporary Western architecture, architectural philosophy and theory, and the debate about the modern city. He has been awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty, Los Angeles, a Senior Fellowship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London/Yale University, and a visiting scholar fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. His publications include Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (MIT Press, 2002), and articles in academic journals, including Israel Studies and the Oxford Art Journal

Volker M. Welter is an architectural historian who has studied and worked in Germany, Scotland, and England. Currently he is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include domestic architecture, modern and contemporary Western architecture, architectural philosophy and theory, and the debate about the modern city. He has been awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty, Los Angeles, a Senior Fellowship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London/Yale University, and a visiting scholar fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. His publications include Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (MIT Press, 2002), and articles in academic journals, including Israel Studies and the Oxford Art Journal