Expressionism, or: Art seen from Within

The laconic title of Wolfgang Pehnt’s book, published in a carefully edited and excellent French translation, is Architecture expressionniste. The author, an architectural historian, offers a geneaology that is at once richly documented and generously illustrated. The effective organization of the layout—chronological, with name entries of the period’s major architects—, the ample notes and bibliography and, last but not least, the inclusion of two indexes—the first for names, the second for ..