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Warburg Models : Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge, Paperback / softback Book

Warburg Models : Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge Paperback / softback

Edited by Tim Anstey, Mari Lending

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An Edifice of Ideas Architectural patronage was crucial for the thinking of Aby Warburg and his circle.

In Hamburg the purpose-designed Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, completed in 1926, organized Warburg’s remarkable library.

From 1927 Warburg developed ideas about orientation in the radical transformation of a disused water tower into the Hamburg Planetarium.

After the Warburg Institute transferred to London in 1933 this pattern of seminal architectural commissioning continued, including projects designed by the avant-garde practice Tecton during the 1930s, and culminating in the construction of the library’s present home at Woburn Square, Bloomsbury in 1958.

Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge follows this history, using archive photographs, architectural drawings and a series of architectural models to show how the Warburg scholars projected a connection between their own physical occupancy of architectural space and their shared ideas about intellectual order, cultural survival, and memory.

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