He said the scheme was pitched below the height of Victorian Behrens Warehouse standing opposite and would not overshadow it. |
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Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister. |
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Father Behrens was a diocesan priest in Newark, New Jersey, prior to his decision to enter the Trappist monastery in Conyers, Georgia, where he now lives and writes. |
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Gropius was the son of the official state architect of Berlin, who studied before the war with Peter Behrens, and designed the modernist Fagus turbine factory. |
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In Germany, the furniture of Peter Behrens and the Jugendstil was largely rationalist, with geometric straight lines and some decoration attached to the surface. |
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