Ornaments of the Metropolis
Reeh, Henrik / Irons, John
For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design, it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In "Ornaments of the Metropolis, " Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Fr...