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Re-Humanizing Architecture : New Forms of Community, 1950-1970.
The international authors of this three-volume work show Europe's post-war architecture in a new light. In spite of geo-political divisions and national differences, the developments in East and West are seen in context for the first time - a mutual perception, the transfer of knowledge, and co...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel/Berlin/Boston :
Birkhäuser,
2017.
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| Series: | East West Central re-building Europe 1950-1990 ;
vol. 1. |
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.