An Appeal: Fundamental Demands

Abstract

This appeal, signed by a cross-section of German architects, planners, and intellectuals, calls for a rebuilding of German cities not along old forms but “for new tasks and in a new form.” It calls for a new architectural beginning for a new era. Yet, many of the signatories were involved in Third Reich building projects, thus demonstrating problematic continuity rather than complete rupture.

Keywords:

• Postwar
• rebuilding
• reconstruction
• World War II
• collective design
• manifesto

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Otto Bartning

Translated from German by Iain Boyd Whyte

Originally published as “Ein Aufruf: grundsätzliche Forderungen,” in Baukunst und Werkform, 1 (1947): 29.