Blueprint

Blueprint is a novel that explores the Bauhaus movement and the social world of the 1920s, with themes that still shape us today. It follows Luise Schilling, a young woman who leaves her father's conservative household in Berlin for Weimar's Bauhaus university, with dreams of studying architecture. However, she encounters a fractured social world of mystics and formalists, communists and fascists, and the dichotomy between the rigid past and a hopeful future turns out to be more muddled than she thought. She gets involved with a cult-like spiritual group, looking for community and falling in love with elusive art student Jakob. While her art school friends retreat into a world of self-improvement and jargon, her home city of Berlin is embroiled in street fights. Luise has to decide where she stands amidst the social upheaval, and encounters themes, utopias, and ideas that still shape us to the present day.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 06 August 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

This powerful novel takes readers on a journey back in time, offering a haunting reflection of the present. In the turbulent 1920s, Luise Schilling leaves her father's conservative household in Berlin and travels to Weimar's Bauhaus university, driven by a passion for architecture. However, upon arrival, she finds herself immersed in a fractured social world filled with mystics, formalists, communists, and fascists, where the line between the rigid past and a hopeful future becomes blurred. Luise becomes involved with a cult-like spiritual group, seeking community and falling in love with the elusive art student Jakob. Despite her ambitions of achieving success, Luise's focus is not on paying homage to great men but rather on embracing the dreams and ideas of her era. Surrounded by luminaries like Gropius and Kandinsky, she immerses herself in the artistic and intellectual movements of the time. While her art school friends retreat into a world of self-improvement and jargon, Berlin is embroiled in street fights and social upheaval. Luise must navigate these turbulent times and decide where she stands amidst the technological advancements, artistic movements, romanticism, avant-garde, populism, and youth movement that shape the present. Blueprint is a captivating novel that resonates with fans of Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" and Ellis Avery's "The Last Nude." It offers a poignant exploration of a past culture war that continues to resonate with us today.

Weight: 192g
Dimension: 127 x 196 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349700830