A305/07: Erich Mendelsohn: The Einstein Tower

In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit www.cca.qc.ca/A305.
Television broadcast 2 looks at one of the very few completed
Expressionist projects, Erich Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower, near Potsdam, built between 1918 and 1922. It analyses Mendelsohn’s working methods through letters and sketches from the Front during the First World War. As a largely symbolic, though technically competent building, the Einstein Tower achieved instant notoriety for Mendelsohn, who retained his Expressionist sketching technique as a means of drafting out his ideas throughout his career.
Written by Denis Sharp, directed by Nick Levinson, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 19 April 1975 on BBC2.

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An entire architectural movement condensed into one building.

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