“mimetizando la estrategia del coreógrafo john tiller quien sincronizaba los movimientos de las bailarinas de teatro mediante la unión física de sus cuerpos a finales del siglo XIX, numerosos arquitectos de posguerra buscaron una alianza entre cálculo, estandarización, estética y producción cuyos efectos totales, al igual que sucede con la teoría de la gestalt, fueron superiores a la suma de las partes. los trabajos de arquitectos como edward durrell stone, marcel breuer o egon eierman ejemplifican este método compositivo y constructivo. la repetición estandarizada se convertía en la retórica de la industria, garantizando bajo el mismo paradigma exactitud calculada y variación expresiva.”
22/08/2012 § 4 Comments
egon eiermann, merkur department store (1958-60)
can’t seem to find anything about this building. nor have i found it on google streetview. bummer. would be interesting to see how its held up over time.
reproduce and repeat
a young hare
notes:
[title] comes from circo 163, reproducir y repetir by pep aviles. this happens to be were i first came across the merkur department store by egon eiermann.
[image] comes from architecture de cartes postales, which asks the same question: where is this building?!
i think it’s the now called kaufhof, a well known department store in berlin. if you google kaufhof eiermann, you’ll find many images. well, if it’s not the same, at least it looks alike, i guess.
i think that’s it: http://goo.gl/maps/o7NEu
thanks adalgisa! its a fun game searching the streets trying to find this building. i bet the facade has been replaced…
it was fun, indeed! have you seen all the kaufhof-eiermann façades?