Ruinen

Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit. Dtsch.-Engl.

Hans Dieter Schaal

4/2011
SCHAAL, HANS DIETER.



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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. Pillaging and plunder were part of everyday life in the Middle Ages. In the first half of the last century the world had to endure two wars that costs millions of people their lives and reduced many cities to rubble. Countless ruins from various epochs remained exuding a feeling of gloom and sadness. In the 18th century it became fashionable to build artificial ruins in parks and landscape gardens; ruins became an image of human inadequacy in the attempt to come to terms with nature.
In this richly illustrated book, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.

Hans Dieter Schaal ist Architekt, Gartenarchitekt, Bühnenbildner und Textautor und breitet hier sein über Jahren zusammengetragenes Archiv aus. Entstanden ist ein außergewöhnlich intensiver, reich illustrierter Beitrag zum Thema Vergänglichkeit.

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Arch.-Typen:Ruinen  Ikono-Ruinen  Ruine  Theorie-Ruinen