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In Cetto’s Proximity Bettina Cetto

I didn’t get a chance, back then, to look at the pavilion from the water. When I visited
it in 1989, would it still have given the idea of a ship, as in this image?

Fig. 17 The Cetto-Pavillon, 1928. © Max Cetto-Archiv, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main.

A few years ago, I learned that the municipal government was considering renovating
the pavilion and that, to my surprise, the Unterstandshalle Ostpark is now known as the
Cetto-Pavillon.

Fig. 18 Work in progress at
the Cetto-Pavillon, July 2019.
Photo: Suleman Anaya.

The fact that the architect’s name was restored is probably due to a particularity of the
Frankfurt Department of Public Works when Cetto worked there as an architectural de-
signer (1926 to 1930): In the publication Das Neue Frankfurt, the projects being built were
presented with complete transparency and appeared, not credited to department head Ernst
May, but to the architects who designed them. The architects often presented their works
themselves, so there are several texts by Cetto in these publications. The magazine has been
20
digitized in its entirety and can be consulted online. Incidentally, Cetto also wrote book
reviews in the pages of Das Neue Frankfurt, which are significant in the analysis of his ma-
ture work.
20 The magazine Das Neue Frankfurt can be consulted at https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/neue_frankfurt.

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