Book Review| December 01 2010 Review: Hermann Muthesius und die Idee der harmonischen Kultur by Fedor Roth; Hermann Muthesius und die Reformdiskussion in der Gartenarchitektur des früühen 20. Jahrhunderts by Uwe Schneider; Hermann Muthesius, 1861––1927: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf by Laurent Stalder Fedor Roth; Hermann Muthesius und die Idee der harmonischen Kultur; Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001, 310 pp., 45 b/w illus. $43 (cloth), ISBN 3786123306Uwe Schneider; Hermann Muthesius und die Reformdiskussion in der Gartenarchitektur des früühen 20. Jahrhunderts; Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000, 334 pp., 53 b/w illus., $63 (cloth), ISBN 3884621653Laurent Stalder; Hermann Muthesius, 1861––1927: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf; Zurich: gta Verlag, 2008, 223 pp., 80 b/w illus. $42 (paper), ISBN 9783856762193 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2010) 69 (4): 596–602. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.4.596 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Hermann Muthesius und die Idee der harmonischen Kultur by Fedor Roth; Hermann Muthesius und die Reformdiskussion in der Gartenarchitektur des früühen 20. Jahrhunderts by Uwe Schneider; Hermann Muthesius, 1861––1927: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf by Laurent Stalder. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 2010; 69 (4): 596–602. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.4.596 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In the spring of 1945, the forty-one-year-old architect Eckart Muthesius returned home to Berlin-Nicolassee to the house and studio designed some four decades earlier by his father, Hermann Muthesius (Figure 1). He discovered a platoon of Soviet soldiers using the spacious suburban house as a field hospital in the battle for Berlin, then raging some seven miles to the northeast. In an effort to clear more space for the wounded in the home's crowded attic, a Russian lieutenant supervised as a group of soldiers lugged boxes of files and papers into the courtyard formed by the house and studio wing. There they hurled the boxes onto a raging bonfire, which, unbeknownst to the Soviet soldiers, was consuming decades' worth of the architect Hermann Muthesius's construction drawings and sketchbooks, transactions with the Deutscher Werkbund, and correspondence with clients and countless figures from the early twentieth-century architecture and design world. Frantically conveying... You do not currently have access to this content.