The Architectural Structuring of Administration: Visualization of non-material work during the Weimar Republic

该项目涉及公共行政大楼的建筑，这一类型在研究中很大程度上被忽视了。这些建筑用于组织公共行政的非物质工作，从20世纪10年代开始，公共行政的程序和与民主社会的联系经历了深远的效率驱动。现代建筑如何通过科学管理重新构思行政过程，这一核心问题尚未得到系统的探讨。这个问题源于20世纪20年代和30年代的建筑设计和建筑，这个项目的目的是将其视为一种以运动和过程为导向的“功能主义”。这些概念和专业文献之间的界面可以在管理部门本身看到，它回应了现代建筑的可能性，并寻求帮助重新设计工作流程。重要的网络（认知社区）在建设实践中是显而易见的，在这个项目中使用鲁尔地区的例子来检查。因此，可以重新评估“功能主义”问题中的关键环节，而（国际）国家比较将填补我们对建筑现代主义理解的空白。

The project addresses the architecture of public administration buildings, a genre which has largely been neglected in research. Such buildings served to organize the non-material work of public administration, whose procedures and contacts with democratic society underwent a far-reaching efficiency drive starting in the 1910s. The central question of how modern architecture both structured and symbolically shaped administrative processes re-conceived by scientific management has not yet been systematically explored. This question is rooted in architectural designs and buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, which for the purposes of this project are viewed as a movement- and process-oriented variety of ‘functionalism’. The interface between such concepts and specialist literature is to be seen in the administration itself, which responded to the possibilities of modern architecture and sought with its help to redesign work processes. Significant networking (epistemic communities) is apparent in the practice of construction, which is examined during this project using the example of the Ruhr region. Consequently, a crucial link in the question of ‘functionalism’ can be reassessed, while (inter)national comparisons will enable a gap to be filled in our understanding of architectural modernism.