Niels Lehmann

Fresh from their success with Modernism London Style, hailed by The Financial Times on 29.6.13 as 'this gorgeous photographic survey', photographer Niels Lehmann and editor Christoph Rauhut present their latest exciting project. Fragments of Metropolis documents all the remaining Expressionist buildings in Berlin, arguably the movement's most important architectural centre. The architecture of Expressionism heralded the onset of the roaring...

The Architecture of Expressionism represents the upheaval of architecture in the roaring twenties, featuring regionally different emphases, schools, and protagonists. The series' third volume documents all surviving buildings in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. This shared heritage of an important European region is presented as a fascinating rediscovery. The enthusiasm for the expressionist metropolis—an architecture of complexity, verticality, and...