A Research on the activities of Deutscher Werkbund 1907-1934 Periodicals, exhibitions and siedlungbaus projected by the Deutscher Werkbund

Deutscher Werkbund（1907-1934）是20世纪初德国一个试图使设计和建筑现代化的协会。关于德意志工作联盟的研究是在第一次世界大战前的威廉二世时代对设计和建筑的新认识的基础上发展起来的，对德意志工作联盟的评价通常集中在这一时期。本研究试图厘清德意志工人联盟的全部活动，特别是重新评价它在20世纪20-30年代的活动。本研究以柏林工作档案馆收集的资料为基础，主要是展览和西德隆堡的期刊和文件，包括《Die Form》和《Mitteilungen des DWB》杂志。本文涉及以下三点：1)威廉二世时期设计与建筑的现代化进程——德意志工联创立的细节；2)20世纪20年代至30年代德意志工联的活动；3)德意志工联与德国现代建筑运动的关系——德意志工联在魏玛时代策划的“西德隆斯堡”1920 - 30的

Deutscher Werkbund (1907-1934) is known as an association that tried to modernize the design and architecture in the early 20th century in Germany.Studies on Deutscher Werkbund have been developed in terms of the new understanding of design and architecture in the Wilhelm II age before the World War I. The evaluation of Deutscher Werkbund is normally focused on this period.This research is an attempt to clarify the whole activities of Deutscher Werkbund, especially to revaluate its period of the 1920-30's.This research is based on the materials collected in the Werkbundarchiv in Berlin, mainly on periodicals and documents of exhibitions and Siedlungsbau, including the magazines Die Form and Mitteilungen des DWB.Three points mentioned below are dealt with:1) On the process of modernization of design and architecture in the period of the Wilhelm II-On the details of the foundation of Deutscher Werkbund2) On the activities of Deutscher Werkbund in the 1920-30's The exhibitions executed by Deutscher Werkbund and its published matters in the Weimar era3) On the relationship between Deutscher Werkbund and the modern movement of architecture in Germany-The Siedlungsbau planned by Deutscher Werkbund in the 1920-30's