National Romanticism and Modern Architecture in Germany and Scandinavian Countries

National Romanticism and Modern
Architecture in Germany and the Scandinavian Countries provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most important modernist traditions. Offering a new interpretation of the origins of modern architecture, Barbara Miller Lane focuses on the movement known as National Romanticism, which flourished in Germany and Scandinavia from about 1890 to 1920.
During this period, painters, interior designers, city planners and architects created a new kind of domestic architecture and interior design, as well as an innovative monumental architecture. Drawing upon local and regional folk traditions, and encouraging a simple way of life, architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Hans Poetzig, Martin Nyrop, and Richard Riemerschmid, among others, looked back to medieval and even prehistoric times for their models, as they also tried to create an architecture that looked toward a new millennium.
Their buildings, both domestic and civic, encouraged new kinds of social and polItical relationships and had a profound influence on the architecture of Germany and Scandinavia.