Erich Mendelsohn and the fourth dimension

Abstract

In this article the design of Mendelsohn's famous Expressionist tower at Potsdam is shown to have been shaped by the cosmology of Albert Einstein informed, however, by the apparently conflicting occult philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

The experience of movement in the built form and space: A framework for movement evaluation in architecture

“…This imagination of motion has been called "Dynamic Spirit" and "Aerodynamic Form" in Mendelsohn's work. It has been defined by such properties as "curvilinear non-Euclidean form, curved windows, and lack of frontality" attributed to Einstein's tower (Hart, 1995). "Dynamism" is a comprehensive feature of such forms.…”