Volker M. Welter

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Articles in Books, Exhibition Catalogues, and Journals

1988
  • Christoph Fischer and Volker Welter with Sibylle Einholz, Eisenguß auf den historischen Friedhöfen in Berlin. Zehn Anmerkungen (Cast iron in Berlin's historical cemeteries. Ten annotations), Aus einem Guß. Eisenguß in Kunst und Technik (From one cast. Iron casting in art and technology), ed. by Museum für Verkehr und Technik (Berlin: Nicolai, 1988)
1990
  • Der Ideenwettbewerb für das Hygiene Museum in Dresden 1920 (The idea competition for the Hygiene Museum in Dresden 1920), Bauwelt, 81 (1990), no. 44, pp. 2214-19.
1991
  • Landhaus Lemke in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (Villa Lemke in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), Bauwelt, 82 (1991), no. 12, p. 536.
  • Atlantropa Projekte (Atlantropa projects) and Herman Sörgel und sein Kontinent Atlantropa (Herman Sörgel and his continent Atlantropa), Bauwelt, 82 (1991), no. 18-19, pp. 946-55, pp. 958-63.
1992
  • 'Ernst ist das Leben, heiter ist die Kunst'—Kunst am Bau in den fünfziger Jahren in Berlin(Applied art and architecture of the 1950s in Berlin), Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, 88 (1992), no. 3, pp. 42-59.
  • Von Jaffa nach Tel Aviv (From Jaffa to Tel Aviv), Bauwelt, 83 (1992), no. 15, pp. 836-55.
1993
  • Festival of Britain 1951, Bauwelt, 84 (1993), no. 5, p. 166.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery im Victoria & Albert Museum, London (The Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London), Bauwelt, 84 (1993), no. 20, p. 1036.
  • The Republic of Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh Architecture Research, 21 (1994), pp. 98-118.
  • Paths towards Utopia, Planning History, 16 (3/1994), pp. 32-34.
1995
  • The Geddes Vision of the Region as City—Palestine as a Polis, Social Utopias of the Twenties—Bauhaus, Kibbutz and the Dream of the New Man, ed. by Jeannine Fiedler, published by Bauhaus Dessau and Friedrich Ebert Foundation Tel Aviv (Wuppertal: Müller + Busmann Press, 1995), pp. 72-79.
  • Patrick Geddes and the City as Organic Unity, Edinburgh Architecture Research, 22 (1995), pp. 11-30ii.
  • Bilder aus der Welt von Morgen (Scenes from the World to Come), Bauwelt, 86 (1995), no. 46, p. 2626.
1996
  • History, Biology and City Design—Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh, Architectural Heritage, VI (1996), pp. 61-82.
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh Retrospektive, Bauwelt, 87 (1996), no. 24, pp. 1351.
1997
  • Penser, Classer: Cataloguing Patrick Geddes's Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, Newsletter Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 60/1997, pp. 1-3.
1998
  • Die Stadt als Freilichtmuseum—Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh (The city as an open-air-museum—Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh), Die Alte Stadt, 25 (4/1998), pp. 347-58.
  • Stages of an Exhibition—The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition of Patrick Geddes, Planning History, 20 (1/1998), pp. 25-35.
1999
  • Arcades for Lucknow—Patrick Geddes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Reconstruction of the City, Architectural History, 42 (1999), pp. 316-32.
  • 'Slum, Semi-slum, Super-slum'—some reflections by Patrick Geddes on Edinburgh's New Town, Architectural Heritage, VIII (1999), pp. 66-73.
2000
  • Artur Glikson, Thinking-Machines and the Planning of Israel, The City after Patrick Geddes, ed. by Volker M. Welter and James Lawson (Bern: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000), pp. 211-226.
2001
  • The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki, Bauwelt, 92 (2001), no. 25, p. 3.
2002
  • Menschenmassen—Massenmenschen: über den öffentlichen Raum in der Architektur Norman Foster (Masses of Human Beings—Mass Human Beings: On the Public Space in the Norman Foster's Architecture), Norman Foster—Architecture is about People, ed. by Susanne Anna (Cologne: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2002) (Schriftenreihe des Museums für Angewandte Kunst, Nr. III), pp. 113-120.
  • An undocumented Plan for Edinburgh's New Town by James Craig, The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, NS 5 (2002), pp. 107-109.
2003
  • Post-War CIAM, Team X, and the Influence of Patrick Geddes, CIAM Team 10-the English Context, ed. by D’Laine Camp, Dirk van den Heuvel, and Gijs de Waal (Delft: Technische Universiteit, 2003), pp. 87-110.
  • The Return of the Muses—Edinburgh as a Museion, The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts, ed. by Michaela Giebelhausen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 144-159.
  • From Locus Genii to Heart of the City—Embracing the Spirit of the City, The Spirit of the City in Modernity, ed. by Iain Boyd Whyte (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 35-56.
2004
  • Talking Squares—Grids and Grilles as an Architectural Tools for Analysis and Communication, Team 10 between Modernity and the Everyday, ed. Dirk van den Heuvel and Gijs de Waal (Delft: Technische Universiteit, 2004), pp. 181-189
2005
  • Ernst L Freud—Domestic Architect, The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 6 (2005), 201-237.
  • In-between Space and Society—One some British Roots of Team 10’s Urban Thought in the 1950s, Team 10 1953-81—In Search of a Utopia of the Present, ed. by Max Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel (Rotterdam: Netherlands Architecture Institute, 2005), pp. 258-263.
2006
  • Patrick Geddes, encyclopedia entry for Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (Thieme-Becker), vol 49, (Munich/Leipzig, 2006), ad vocem.
2007
  • Everywhere at any Time—Post-Second World War Genealogies of the City of the Future, The Man-Made Future: Planning, Education and Design in mid-twentieth- century Britain, ed. by Iain Boyd Whyte (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 59-77.

2009

  • Introduction to Kurt Lewin ‘The Landscapes of War’, in: Art in Translation, 1:3 (2009), 199-209 (p. 200).
  • The 1925 Master Plan for Tel Aviv by Patrick Geddes, in: Israel Studies, 14: 3 (2009), 94-119.
  • Scholar’s Choice: Paul Goesch, entry on the web site of the Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
2010
  • Museum Architecture, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, (New York: Routledge, 3rd edition, 2010)
2011
    • Patrick Geddes – von der Biologie zum Städtebau (Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2011).
    • From Disc to Sphere, in: Cabinet Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture, 2011: 40, pp. 19-25
    • Introduction to the translation of Helmuth Plessner ‘The Renaissance of Form’, in: Art in Translation, 3:1 (2011), pp. 37-52 (pp. 38-39)
    Forthcoming
    • The 1925 Master Plan for Tel Aviv by Patrick Geddes, in: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen (eds.), Tel-Aviv: The First Century, Visions, Designs and Realities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)