{"product_id":"achim-bunz-neuschwanstein-9783930698332","title":"Neuschwanstein","description":"One and a half million visitors per year can’t be wrong. For them\nthe royal castle at Neuschwanstein is the pinnacle of every dreamer’s\narchitectural fairy-tale. But for the architecturally educated, for\nadepts of Modernism, this stylistically crude, anachronistic monument\nto a prince’s whim is simply annoying. Admittedly, putting\naside all positive or negative prejudice, it is impossible not to count\nthis romantic recreation of a medieval castle on its breath-taking\nscenic site as one of the most spectacular pioneering buildings of\nEuropean Historicism.\nNeuschwanstein is an extreme: never before have the charms\nof the natural surroundings and the tectonics of the landscape\nbeen used so consciously to create an effect within the overall architectural\npicture. Never have historical architectural forms been\ncharged with so much existential meaning as by King Ludwig II,\nwho believed that he could think himself back into the days of\nknightly chivalry merely by building. And architecture has never\nagain been so frankly used as a setting intended to stage a life in\nterms of theatre, in other words been so liberated from its original\nfunctions. In withdrawing from reality, Ludwig thrust forward into\nthe realms of the fairy-tale, which would otherwise have remained\nclosed to architecture.\nIt would also be possible to say: just as the hierarchically structured\nworld of Versailles is a built symbol of the Baroque absolutist\nstate order, so this residential castle of Neuschwanstein, almost\ninaccessible on its mountain-top, is a symbol of an isolated royal\ndreamer who wanted to give meaning to his anachronistic existence\nby flight into fiction and recourse to the glorious past.\nGottfried Knapp is responsible for architectural reporting as cultural\neditor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. He has written\non contemporary architecture and urban development in almost all\nthe specialist publications in Germany. Achim Bunz studied at the\nStaatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and has been\nworking as an architectural photographer for 20 years. His photographs\nhave been published in many periodicals and books including\nthe book Gebaute Träume. Die Schlösser Ludwigs II. von\nBayern by Michael Petzet published in 1995 by Hirmer Verlag in\nMunich.","brand":"Edition Axel Menges","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53918743593302,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/achim-bunz-neuschwanstein-9783930698332","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}