Making a New World: Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe - Rilegato

 
9789058679093: Making a New World: Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 9058679098 ISBN 13: 9789058679093
Casa editrice: Leuven University Press, 2012

Sinossi

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 reformers encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposalsfrom art exhibitions to séances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitationthese individuals were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 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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Informazioni sull'autore

Rajesh Heynickx teaches Art History at Universiteit Antwerpen and Sint-Lucas Architectuur Gent-Brussel.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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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Editore
Leuven University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9058679098
ISBN 13 
9789058679093
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
252
Redattore
Heynickx Rajesh, Avermaete Tom
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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