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17:57 Nov 6, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture
German term or phrase: Stilarchitektur
Die Absage an die Stilarchitektur...
ChristineBauer
Local time: 18:54


Summary of answers provided
4Style Architectureurnmalley
3Stylized architecture
Christopher Lewis
3 -1Historicist architecture
Michael Wetzel
1 -1architecture before 1900
Annie and Rolf Reiser


Discussion entries: 3





  

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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Historicist architecture


Explanation:
I'm assuming that you are giving no context, because you are dealing with a list of terms or a similar situation.

I had never heard of Historicism referred to in this way, but that was my immediate hunch and here is a good source from a contemporary source (search "Stilarchitektur" in the following Wikipedia article).


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Note added at 1 Tag1 Stunde (2010-11-07 19:39:57 GMT)
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"Revivalist archtitecture" is another established alternative that is well documented in Wikipedia, for example.
Please, please, please do not translate the term as "style-architecture", as done in a recent translation of Muthesius' book (alongside "building-art": http://shop.getty.edu/product508.html) - there are perfectly established and appropriate English terms available.


    Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Muthesius
Michael Wetzel
Germany
Local time: 03:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Annie and Rolf Reiser: da ist keine Referenz, die deine Übersetzung mit der Fragestellung gleichsetzt
1 day6 hrs
  -> The paragraph explains the concept and then offers "Historismus", which offers the English translation "Historicism (art)". I think the asker was more concernded with the unfamiliar German term than the very familiar English one.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): -1
architecture before 1900


Explanation:
I think it refers to all styles before the turn of the century 1900.

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Note added at 1 day7 hrs (2010-11-08 01:15:46 GMT)
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Historismus und Elektizismus sind keine eigenen Baustile sonder kopieren frühere Stilarchitekturen wie Klassizismus oder den griechischen oder römischen Baustil. Daher bezeichne ich die Stilarchitektur als 'architecture before 1900' , wahrscheinlich sogar etwas früher, da ja der Klassizismus ebenfalls nor noch eine Kopie des Früheren war.

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Note added at 1 day7 hrs (2010-11-08 01:17:16 GMT)
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Noch etwas:
Der Begriff 'Stilarchitektur' als Solches ist fragwürdig und ungenau.

Annie and Rolf Reiser
Local time: 19:54
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Michael Wetzel: I understand that you only gave a confidence rating of 1, but do you have any kind of source for this? ... Added: Kudos for the Sunday-irony, but it doesn't make the answer any better.
18 hrs
  -> I didn't check yet. I just remember the subject 'Kunstgeschichte' where we learned that after 1900 architecture was only copied for a while from the Greek or Romans until the 'Moderne' or 'Postmoderne' started. I'll check after football :-)
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235 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Style Architecture


Explanation:

I study Architecture and I was also confused when my German lecturer presented us with the term Stilarchitektur. The translation is indeed Style architecture, in that it refers to architecture based solely on style. It is used dialectally/in opposition with/to Baukunst. Baukunst dates from around the turn of the last century, and was a new way of making architecture. For the first time construction in architecture was approached as an art in of itself, and in that sense free from the unifying/subjugating codes of preceding architectural styles. Examples of Style Architecture in this context would be different classical/codes or expressions which of Architecture such as those found in the renaissance, Gothic, baroque and neoclassical periods. Style architecture however is not exclusive to styles preceding the 19th century, neo-classicism is still practised to this day.

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438 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Stylized architecture


Explanation:
Just a guess based on the (very limited) context.

Christopher Lewis
Germany
Local time: 03:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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