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This visually arresting tour through the former East Germany shows the best examples of modernist architecture still standing there today.

Die wichtigsten Bauwerke der einflussreichsten Architekturschule des 20. Jahrhunderts in grandiosen Aufnahmen Englische Ausgabe; deutsche Ausgabe auch erhältlich (978-3-7913-8480-1): Auch 100 Jahre nach seiner Gründung hat das Weltkulturerbe Bauhaus nichts von seiner Faszination eingebüßt. Die Aufnahmen des Architekturfotografen Hans Engels präsentieren in diesem Band eine Auswahl berühmter wie auch weniger bekannter Bauten von Bauhausarchitekten wie Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Die Gebäude werden in chronologischer Reihenfolge von der Gründung 1919 bis zur Schließung des Bauhauses 1933 in meisterhaften, eigens für diesen Band entstandenen Fotografien gezeigt, die informativen Texte von Axel Tilch ergänzen die Aufnahmen durch wertvolle Informationen zur Baugeschichte. Dem Leser eröffnet sich ein breit gefächertes Panorama der Bauhaus-Architektur, der heute unbestritten bedeutendsten Schule für Architektur, Design und Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert.

The Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany, rising an impressive 2962 meters. Hundreds of thousands of visitors reach the cross on its summit every year, whether after a comfortable ride with the funicular or by tackling the steep ascent on foot. Hans Engels has undertaken the strenuous, but spectacularly beautiful climb and has chosen the alpine primordial landscape to be the protagonist of his incredible photographs. The photographer’s view takes in both the idyllic simplicity of the landscape as well as great plays of nature. Engels’ sublime photographs capture craggy rock formations or deep gorges cut through by springs. Nevertheless, traces of civilization in his photographs, like the mine in the Höllental valley and the research station next to the ice fields on the glaciers, are often juxtaposed in fascinating contrast to an ostensibly untouched natural setting.

This collection of photographs provides a survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members during the institution's existence from 1919 to 1933, the work looks at some 65 building projects, with informative commentaries and site plans.

Few cities in the world evoke for Americans the kind of mystery and exotic appeal of Havana. Always enigmatic, and hidden for forty years behind a veil of political intrigue, it is hard to believe that few Americans have visited this city just a day's boat ride away from our own shores. In Havana (Prestel), award-winning photographer Hans Engels applies a keen eye and ahnost two decades of experience to capture a city that mixes ebullience with decay, modemity with colonialism. It is a city of sad and breathtaking beauty, and one whose brilliantly diverse architecture says much about its social and political history.