2474. Frankfurt /Main, Höchst I.G. Farbenwerke.

 

Dear Sara,

"Design is not about decorating functional forms;

it is about creating forms that accord with the 

character of the object and that show new technologies

to advantage." (Peter Behrens)

Greetings,

R

2092. Zagreb. Jurišicèva Ulica.

 

Querido Pablo,

Esta es una antigua postal que muestra los grandes

almacenes Haus Otto Stern en la Ban Josip Jelačić 

Square esquina con la Jurišicèva Ulica. La 

remodelación de este importante edificio fue 

ejecutada por Peter Behrens, uno de los grandes arquitectos de la primera mitad del siglo XX en 

Europa.

Un abrazo,

R

1930. Hagen Delstern, Crematorium

Querida Sybi,

Como decía Behrens ¿es el coraje solo la conciencia

de que los gestos, los viajes, las vidas tienen una forma

intrínseca y deben, de una forma u otra, completarse?

Besos,

R

1288. Zilina - Synagoga

Dear Art and Judith,

A vintage and beautiful image of the Neologic Synagogue
built in 1931 by Peter Behrens in Zilina, Slovakia. Since
2011 the building has been restored and partially reconstructed to bringing it back to its original conditions.

Best regards,
R

1276. Zagreb, Jurišićeva ulica

Hola Concha,

Desde Zagreb en Croacia te mando una antigua postal donde se puede ver parcialmente a la izquierda de la imagen los antiguos grandes almacenes Haus Otto Stern. La remodelación de éste edificio fue llevada a cabo a finales de los años 1920 por Peter Behrens, uno de los arquitectos más emblemáticos en el desarrollo de la arquitectura moderna en el siglo XX.

Besos y Feliz Navidad,
R

994. Das Haus Ring der Frauen, Berlin 1931

Dear Alice,

"Architecture is the art which is closest to reality" 
(Peter Behrens)

All the best,
R

886. Das Haus Behrens

Dear Harry,

"It isn't from individual forms in nature that we can deduce a useful pattern or model, but from its structure, its construction, the mighty law of nature" 

(Peter Behrens)

The father of the modern movement in architecture the
self-taught architect and industrial designer Peter Behrens, built his own house, in 1901 at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. It was his first architectural commission and it represented for Behrens a turning point from the Arts and Crafts Movement ideas to a more ascetic and fresh way of design.

Regards.
R

714. St.Petersbourg, Ambassade Allemagne

Dear John,

The German Embassy to the Russian Empire, in St.
Petersburg's St. Isaaks Platz, was designed by prominent
German architect Peter Behrens in just eight weeks. Mies
van der Rohe, an apprentice at the office of Behrens at
that time, was appointed as building construction manager.
Mies said much later that under Behrens he learned "the
grand form".

Best regards.
R

590. Höchst a. M

Dear Sarah,

The administration building for the I.G. Farben by Peter
Behrens, features a large hall along which offices are set.
The design of this hall emulates the spatial layout of the
Larkin Building by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Best.
R

395. Mannesmannhaus Dusseldorf

Dear Gio,

"Monumentality requires cubic compactness and creation
of large form" (Peter Behrens).
But he claimed also that the Mannesmann Building derives
from an analysis of use.

Regards.
R

323. Berlin. Alexanderplatz

Querida Regina,

A veces al mirar los dos edificios especulares que Behrens
construyo para la Alexanderplatz recuerdo la manera en
que el Adam Pollo de Le Clezio soñaba vivir: pongo dos
hamacas frente a frente, debajo de la ventana, asi, a eso
del mediodia, me tiendo y duermo al sol, delante del paisaje.

Besos.
R

32. Berlin. Besuch bei der AEG

Bob,

This is the Peter Behrens AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin.
It is considered by many the first great 20th-century
expresion of pure functionalist architecture. Steel and
glass used on a very large scale, without decoration
of any kind for the first time. The two corner pillars
have only a binding and enclosing function and
therefore are made of another material: concrete.
Such a high honesty in the architecture in contrast
with the fake clouds displayed in the postcard is
somehow funny to me.

R