An architect at war: Adrian Berrington and the environment of the modern battlefield of the First World War

This article asks how fighting on the modern battlefields of the First WorldWar shaped an architect-soldier’s perception and concept of space andchanged his architectural designs. Against the background of a briefdiscussion of contemporary and recent accounts that discuss the warexperience in spatia...

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1. Verfasser: Welter, Volker M. 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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Zusammenfassung:This article asks how fighting on the modern battlefields of the First WorldWar shaped an architect-soldier’s perception and concept of space andchanged his architectural designs. Against the background of a briefdiscussion of contemporary and recent accounts that discuss the warexperience in spatial terms, the article presents an exemplary case study ofthe military career of the English architect Adrian Berrington (1886–1923).Before the war Berrington belonged to the circle of the urban sociologistPatrick Geddes (1854–1932), during the war he underwent shell-shocktherapy at Craiglockhart War Hospital together with the war poet WilfredOwen (1893–1918). A detailed analysis of Berrington’s war letters andselected designs shows how the war changed his concept of space to adegree that pre-war principles no longer offered guidance for his post-wardesigns.
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ISSN:2190-3328
DOI:10.11588/riha.2020.0.75879

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