DOI Heft:
No. 197 (August, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0229
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
DR. VASSMER’S COUNTRY HOUSE: MAIN ENTRANCE RUNGE & SCOTLAND, ARCHITECTS, BREMEN
German Lloyd steamship “ Kronprinzessin Cecilie,”
which were illustrated in The Studio for December,
1907 (pp. 238-240). Apropos of the
work of these architects in relation to
domestic architecture generally, and
specifically in regard to the designs now
illustrated, we quote the remarks of one
of our German correspondents.
Two factors (he says) have played an
important part in the recent evolution
of country-house architecture in Ger-
many ; first, much attention has been
paid to the traditional style and methods
of building peculiar to a particular dis-
trict, and secondly, there has been a
more general recognition of the principle
that between a house and its physical en-
vironment there should always exist as
much congruity as possible. It is gener-
ally recognised, for instance, that it
would be a gross perversion of architec-
tural propriety to build a Swiss chalet
in one of the flat expanses of Northern
Europe, or to transplant the style of a peasant
cottage of Lower Saxony to the Bavarian highlands.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN OF THE ABOVE
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DR. VASSMER’S COUNTRY HOUSE: MAIN ENTRANCE RUNGE & SCOTLAND, ARCHITECTS, BREMEN
German Lloyd steamship “ Kronprinzessin Cecilie,”
which were illustrated in The Studio for December,
1907 (pp. 238-240). Apropos of the
work of these architects in relation to
domestic architecture generally, and
specifically in regard to the designs now
illustrated, we quote the remarks of one
of our German correspondents.
Two factors (he says) have played an
important part in the recent evolution
of country-house architecture in Ger-
many ; first, much attention has been
paid to the traditional style and methods
of building peculiar to a particular dis-
trict, and secondly, there has been a
more general recognition of the principle
that between a house and its physical en-
vironment there should always exist as
much congruity as possible. It is gener-
ally recognised, for instance, that it
would be a gross perversion of architec-
tural propriety to build a Swiss chalet
in one of the flat expanses of Northern
Europe, or to transplant the style of a peasant
cottage of Lower Saxony to the Bavarian highlands.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN OF THE ABOVE
T99