Peter Blundell Jones prefaces his upcoming talk on the work of Guenter Behnisch

摘要

For the Twentieth Century Society's 1970s conference, taking place this week, I was asked to talk about Germany. I chose the work of Guenter Behnisch's practice as my main example, because their radical change of direction around 1970 seems to me so essential to that time.In the early to mid 1960s, this Stuttgart firm had stood at the forefront of system building, making schools in precast concrete which were rigid and repetitive, if cunningly contrived.