Sanctioning Modernism : : Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities /

Sanctioning Modernism : : Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities / / ed. by Vladimir Kulic, Timothy Parker, Monica Penick.

In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architec...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Doordan, Dennis P.,
Elman Zarecor, Kimberly,
Isenstadt, Sandy,
Jung, Hyun-Tae,
Kieckhefer, Richard,
Kulic, Vladimir,
Maxim, Juliana,
Parker, Timothy,
Penick, Monica,
Proctor, Robert,
Sabatino, Michelangelo,
Steiner, Frederick,
HerausgeberIn:
Kulic, Vladimir,
Parker, Timothy,
Penick, Monica,
TeilnehmendeR:
Steiner, Frederick.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2014
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Writing History: Reflections on the Story of Midcentury Modern Architecture
  • PART I. MODERNISM AND THE STATE
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bucharest: Th e City Transfigured
  • 2. The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia
  • 3. Czechoslovakia’s Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future
  • 4. Sanctioning Modernism and Tradition: Italian Architecture, the Vernacular, and the State
  • PART II. MAKING RELIGION MODERN
  • Introduction
  • 5. Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Two Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Britain
  • 6. “Humanly sublime tensions”: Luigi Moretti’s Chiesa del Concilio (1965–1970)
  • 7. Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture
  • PART III: MODERNISM AND DOMESTICITY
  • Introduction
  • 8. “Technologically” Modern: Th e Prefabricated House and the Wartime Experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  • 9. “Modern but not too modern”: House Beautiful and the American Style
  • 10. House and Haunted Garden
  • Further Reading
  • Contributors
  • Index

Similar Items