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Here is a building in Darmstadt by Hans Best. Built at the same time as the work in the Darmstadt Artists Colony, it is not a famous building nor is the architect very well known, despite a productive career throughout southwest Germany. I think the building is handsome, well proportioned and full of delicious details. Why isn't it on anyone's must see list? It does not have a clear enough ideological position.
Maybe, it is a bit too inclusive, a bit too far ranging in its decorative effects, but I am not convinced. I think it falls off the screen because the historians cannot categorize it. Its an unfortunate culling committed by historians and the current architectural press regularly. There may be a rule that you have to be simple to be remembered. Or, maybe the question goes to the essential purpose of history.
Mike Mense FAIA
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mmenseArchitects
Anchorage AK
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