Sanctioning modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities / edited by Vladimir Kuli�c, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick ; foreword by Frederick Steiner.
Series: Roger Fullington series in architecturePublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780292757257 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780292760646 (e-book)
- Doordan, Dennis P. Writing history
- 724/.6 23
- NA682.M63 S26 2014eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Writing history: reflections on the story of midcentury modern architecture / Dennis P. Doordan -- Modernism and the state. Introduction / Vladimir Kuli�c -- Bucharest: the city transfigured / Juliana Maxim -- The scope of socialist modernism: architecture and state representation in postwar Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kuli�c -- Czechoslovakia's model housing developments: modern architecture for the socialist future / Kimberly Elman Zarecor -- Sanctioning modernism and tradition: Italian architecture, the vernacular, and the state / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Making religion modern. Introduction / Timothy Parker -- Uncertainty and the modern church: two Roman Catholic cathedrals in Britain / Robert Proctor -- "Humanly sublime tensions": Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio (1965/1970) / Timothy Parker -- Modernism and the concept of reform: liturgy and liturgical architecture / Richard Kieckhefer -- Modernism and domesticity. Introduction / Monica Penick -- "Technologically" modern: the prefabricated house and the wartime experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / Hyun-Tae Jung -- "Modern but not too modern": House beautiful and the American style / Monica Penick -- House and haunted garden / Sandy Isenstadt.
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