"Heimatschutz" Architecture		Architecture of the "Stuttgart School"		"National Building Tradition"

In a radical way, the architecture of the 20th century frees itself from building according to specific stylistic requirements. The architects react differently to the new building assignments and the technical innovation enabling standardization and large-scale production: while some celebrate the new by using visually highlighted building set systems or construction technique, other architects stylistically attenuate it by means of regional references and regionalisms. The architects of traditionalism are deeply convinced of the “idea” of a building type, a construction, or a material. Their simplified building type is not a dwelling machine; rather it is their interpretation of a traditional, bourgeois building method thought to be morally undamaged, by virtue of which the traditions that were buried by the changes of time will resurrect. Thus, architecture is supposed to return to simple types, therewith restoring societal contexts. This anti-modern modernity construes its manifests as a projection of the past, which at the same time quarries purist, nationalistic and poetic notions. Even though this architectural style defines itself by sharp contrast with Style Historicism and Bauhaus, it is – by way of its standardized concepts and systems – equally modern in terms of its being architecture for a mobile, accelerated society.


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