Ernst L. Freud, Architect

Volker M. Welter is an architectural historian who has studied and worked in Germany, Scotland, and England. Currently he is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include domestic architecture, modern and contemporary Western architecture, architectural philosophy and theory, and the debate about the modern city. He has been awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty, Los Angeles, a Senior Fellowship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London/Yale University, and a visiting scholar fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. His publications include Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (MIT Press, 2002), and articles in academic journals, including Israel Studies and the Oxford Art Journal

“If one wants a fascinating, impeccably researched, and carefully documented image of less-well-known aspects of the early history of psychoanalysis, including the development and design of the two public psychoanalytic clinics in Berlin, all accompanied by plentiful pictures and descriptions…then this book should satisfy well. And there is more to recommend it…. Ernst Freudis not only an important contribution to a revised and more differentiated history of modern Weimar architecture; it also offers an enhanced picture of the early years of psychoanalysis, including the role played by the son of the father of psychoanalysis.”  ·  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association“This monograph provides a useful record of Ernst Freud’s life and career based on meticulous research. It also succeeds in revising our understanding of the development of modern bourgeois homes. Freud’s domestic works affirmed traditional bourgeois lifestyle while incorporating features from a progressive vision of modern life. He managed to achieve modernity in bourgeois homes without cutting their connection to the past, a legacy that is still relevant today.”  ·  W 86th“…[I]nnovative and very rich in new perspectives on European domestic architecture after WWI. As well as revealing the life and work of a little known architect with a famous family name, it discusses major theoretical questions of an overlooked aspect in twentieth-century architecture: the bourgeois home (contrary to social mass-housing).”  ·  Edina Meyer-Maril, Tel Aviv University“The book is an important contribution to the history of architecture—by raising awareness of this one fascinating architect, whose work is curiously minimized in the scholarship on modern architecture, Welter not only makes significant contributions to the roster, he also advances the ongoing reassessment of architectural modernism (as a style) and modernity (as a phenomenon).”  ·  Karen Koehler, Hampshire College

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Modern Bourgeois Domestic Architecture of the Weimar Republic Modern Bourgeois Domestic Architecture The Limits of Community, the Chances of Society The Bourgeois Home, the 'Unknown Territory' of Modern Architecture? Chapter 2. The Making of an Architect Vienna, Austrian Capital of Art and Culture Berggasse 19, Vienna Studying Architecture in Vienna and Munich Chapter 3. Going Modern with Rainer Maria Rilke and Adolf Loos 'Learning to See' with Rainer Maria Rilke Adolf Loos and Bourgeois Wohnkultur Chapter 4. Society Architect in Berlin Weimar Germany Weimar Republic Architecture Setting up Home and Office in Berlin 'To live in Berlin and to build in the Holy Land' Society Architect in Berlin Chapter 5. Houses in and around Berlin First Houses in Berlin Relationships with Clients The First Modern House The Frank Country House near Berlin More Houses in and near Berlin Chapter 6. Couches, Consulting Rooms, and Clinics Historiography of Psychoanalytic Consulting Rooms The Primeval Consulting Room at Berggasse 19 Consulting Rooms and Couches in Berlin Sanatorium SchloA Tegel Psychoanalytic Spaces in London Chapter 7. At Home in England Going into Exile Setting up Office in London Houses in and around London The Second World War and its Aftermath Chapter 8. Family Architect Berggasse in London Family Homes in Berlin A new Family Home in London From Hiddensee to Hidden House A Home for his Parents Towards a Life without Architecture Chapter 9. Architecture without Quality? Some Concluding Remarks Selected List of Works Selected Bibliography Index