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Architect Peter Behrens

Location Darmstadt, Germany map
Date 1901 timeline
Building Type architect's house
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Construction System brick and stucco facade, wood interior
Climate temperate
Context suburban
Style Art Nouveau
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Photo, exterior overview Photo, exterior facade Photo, exterior close-up of Art
Nouveau double doors
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Discussion Behrens House Commentary

"In retrospect, much of this work now has the appearance of being derivative: the dining room
furniture in particular is obviously close to the style of Henry van de Velde. The house is organized
about a dining and music room on the raised ground floor, with a kitchen and ancilliary services in
the basement, and the main bedrooms and studio space above. While this format was quite typical
for a small burgeois house, its internal and external expression was unusual, particularly for its
combination of features drawn from the English Arts and Crafts movement...with elements such as
the high-pitched roof drawn from the German vernacular."

— from Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p108.

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Sources on Behrens House

Earl Moursund, University of Oregon (was Donald Corner and Jenny Young). Slide from
photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.73, exterior photo of Art Nouveau doorway.
PCD.2350.1012.1143.74, facade of house. PCD.2350.1012.1143.72, exterior overview photo of
house in context.

Christian Norberg-Schultz. Casa Behrens, Darmstadt. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1986. exterior
photo from yard, p12. interior photo of staircase, p41. interior photo of la biblioteca, p60.
exterior photo of front door, p13. exterior photo from street, p6.

John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley
Publishers, 1975. worm's eye axonometric, p222. — An accessible, inspiring and informative
overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clea r explanations. available
at Amazon.com

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN
0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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