Book release with Roland Fuhrmann
Dresden’s gateway to the skies: the world’s first streamlined airship hangar and its influence on architectural history
The largest volume of space in the city of Dresden built column-free has disappeared from the consciousness of building history – unjustly. This book reconstructs the building history of Dresden’s airship hangar from 1913 in a meticulous and gripping way, illustrated with previously unpublished pictorial material. Starting from this pioneer building, a panorama of airship hangar construction unfolds in the 20th century, accompanied by the growing knowledge of aerodynamics. The Dresden „cocoon for airships“ interacts with Zeppelin aviation as well as with the cultural and architectural history on the threshold to modernity and streamline modernity. Only after its forced demolition in 1921 and the transfer of knowledge to its construction in the USA with adaptations in Ohio, California and North Carolina, which still exist today, is the streamlined airship hangar type known as such and standard in the construction of large airships. The creator of this new design has been completely forgotten: Civil engineer Ernst Meier in Berlin. For the first time, his groundbreaking work will be extensively honoured here.
Dr. Roland Fuhrmann
Dresden’s gateway to the skies: the world’s first streamlined airship hangar and its influence on architectural history
536 pages, 770 illustrations, 21 x 29,7 cm
THELEM Universitätsverlag Dresden, 2019
ISBN 978-3-95908-482-6
79,80 Euro