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Originally published in 1908, The Beauty of the Metropolis is a homage to urban life, celebrating cities with a particular focus on Berlin. In this lyrical essay, German architect and theorist August Endell invites readers to perceive familiar environments in a new light, advocating for an emotional, unmediated response to the visible world inspired by Lipps's theory of Einfühlung. He advocates seizing aesthetic ownership of urban surroundings, prefiguring our hypervisual culture. In his rhapsodic observations, Endell captures gaslight mingling with the last rays of sunshine, pedestrians moving in a ballet of unheard rhythms, and mist and rain casting fresh enchantment over familiar streets.
This new translation also features a selection of articles in which Endell introduces readers to aesthetic themes. He describes the greening of a tree with the urgency of true crime and anticipates the Bauhaus movement years before it becomes a reality. Reaching back to the close of the nineteenth century, these texts paradoxically serve as a rousing hymn to the present. With extensive notes and an afterword, this edition of The Beauty of the Metropolis offers a spirited inquiry into belonging and an engagement with culture that rejects unreflective nationalist pathos.
Contents
Translator's Note
The Beauty of the Metropolis
Accusing the Age
Renouncing the Present
Love of the Here and Now
The Metropolis
The City as Design
The City as Working Entity
The City as Nature
The City as Sound
The City as Landscape
On Vision and the Visible World
The Scenic Beauty of the City
The Veils of Day
The Veils of Night
The Street as Living Entity
Articles, 1897-1905
Joy in Form
Art of Forms
Letter to Die Zukunft
Originality and Tradition
Art and the People
On Vision
Evening Colours
Spring Trees
Treetops
Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
The Association of German Artists' Exhibition in Berlin
The Art of Impressions
Our Impressionists
Workers' Houses
Afterword
Notes
Further Reading
