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Erich Mendelsohn and the fourth dimension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Vaughan Hart
Vaughan Hart
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School of Architecture and Civil EngineeringUniversity of BathClaverton DownBath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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Abstract

In this article the design of Mendelsohn's famous Expressionist tower at Potsdam is shown to have been shaped by the cosmology of Albert Einstein informed, however, by the apparently conflicting occult philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Winter 1995, pp. 50 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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