Movement
Expressionist Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →A largely German movement of the 1910s–1920s pursuing emotive, distorted and organic form as subjective expression; much of it remained visionary paper architecture, with Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower its great surviving monument.
Fantasy Ephemerality
Details
- Origin
- Germany
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Sources
- Wolfgang Pehnt. Expressionist Architecture. Thames & Hudson, 1973.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Expressionist Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/german-expressionism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.