It is clarified that the book“City Crown”edited by Bruno Taut had a subtle structural outline in order to appeal the decline and the rebirth of urban image, composed of a theoretical essay with an architectural project by Taut, visionary poems of an expressionistic poet, a critique on social theory by a journalist and an essay on art history by a modernistic critic. The architectural thought created by Taut is discussed on following topics: 1. architecture as a medium of rebirth, 2.‘social’thought, 3. universality transcending Europe, 4. concentrated city image with a void core.
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