Making a New World: Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe: 13 (Kadoc-artes, 13) - Tapa dura

 
9789058679093: Making a New World: Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe: 13 (Kadoc-artes, 13)
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ISBN 10: 9058679098 ISBN 13: 9789058679093
Editorial: Leuven University Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities. In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations between architecture and modernity. Making a New World analyses the various ways in which these relations were determined. Most activists/entities encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposals - from art exhibitions to séances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitation - these reformists were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 17 contributions to this richly illustrated volume draw the contours of this new world by analysing its foundations and working mechanisms at its heart.

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Acerca del autor

Rajesh Heynickx is gewoon hoogleraar aan de Faculteit Architectuur en voorzitter van het Departement Architectuur van de KU Leuven. Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture. Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture at Delft University with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.

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Study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities. In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations between architecture and modernity. Making a New World analyses the various ways in which these relations were determined. Most activists/entities encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposals - from art exhibitions to séances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitation - these reformists were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 17 contributions to this richly illustrated volume draw the contours of this new world by analysing its foundations and working mechanisms at its heart.

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Editorial
Leuven University Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9058679098
ISBN 13 
9789058679093
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
252
Editor
Heynickx Rajesh, Avermaete Tom
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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