East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990.

East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990. / Volume 1, : Re-Humanizing Architecture ; New Forms of Community, 1950-1970 / / ed. by Ákos Moravánszky, Judith Hopfengärtner.

After the Second World War, a divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems – in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, the focus was on cohesion in society and its cultural and architectural expression. In parallel to...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bałus, Wojciech,
Beyer, Elke,
Constantino, Susana,
Drosos, Nikolas,
Hallas-Murula, Karin,
Hanáčková, Marcela,
Heynen, Hilde,
Hopfengärtner, Judith,
Kerékgyártó, Béla,
Kulić, Vladimir,
Martin, Marijke,
Maxim, Juliana,
Molinari, Luca,
Moos, Stanislaus von,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Mota, Nelson,
Pedret, Annie,
Sterken, Sven,
Vais, Dana,
Wagenaar, Cor,
Wettstein, Domonkos,
Weyns, Eva,
Zinganel, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Hopfengärtner, Judith,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:East West Central ; Volume 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe
  • Introduction
  • I. Discourses on Humanism
  • Re-Humanizing Architecture: The Search for a Common Ground in the Postwar Years, 1950–1970
  • CIAM: From “Spirit of the Age” to the “Spiritual Needs” of People
  • Was Humanized Socialist Modernism Possible After All? The Promise and Failure of Mass Housing in Hungary
  • Mieczysław Porębski: Man and Architecture in the Iconosphere
  • II. Building New Societies
  • Continuity or Discontinuity? Narratives on Modern Architecture in East and West Germany during the Cold War
  • Building Together: Construction Sites in a Divided Europe During the 1950s
  • Building a New Warsaw, Building a Social Warsaw: The First Reconstruction Plans and Their International Review
  • Building a New Community – A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia
  • “Social Efficiency” and “Humanistic Specificity”: A Double Discourse in Romanian Architecture in the 1960s
  • Sociological and Environmental- Psychology Research in Estonia during the 1960s and 1970s: A Critique of Soviet Mass-Housing
  • III. The Urban Context
  • Bogdan Bogdanović and the Search for a Meaningful City
  • From “New Units of Settlement” to the Old Arbat: The Soviet NĖR Group’s Search for Spaces of Community
  • Theories and Practices of Re-Humanizing Postwar Italian Architecture: Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Giancarlo De Carlo
  • Urban Planning and Christian Humanism: The Institut Supérieur d’Urbanisme Appliqué in Brussels under Gaston Bardet
  • The Monumentality of the Matchbox: On “Slabs” and Politics in the Cold War
  • Between City and University: New Monumentality in the Student Center of the Campus of Coimbra
  • IV. The Inhabited Nature
  • Socialist Pastoral: The Role of Folklore in Socialist Architectural Culture, 1950s and 1960s
  • Dwelling in the Middle Landscape: Rethinking the Architecture of Rural Communities at CIAM 10
  • A Desire for Innocence? Community and Recreational Architecture around Lake Balaton
  • Unexpected Side Effects: Indirect Benefits of International Mass Tourism on Croatia’s Adriatic Coast
  • Appendix
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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