Research Catalog

Title

Sanctioning modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities / edited by Vladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick ; foreword by Frederick Steiner.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kulić, Vladimir
• Parker, Timothy, 1967-
• Penick, Monica, 1972-
• Doordan, Dennis P.

Description

xii, 290 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Uniform Title

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Subject

• Modern movement (Architecture)
• Architecture and society > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Writing history: reflections on the story of midcentury modern architecture / Dennis P. Doordan -- Modernism and the state. Introduction / Vladimir Kulić -- Bucharest: the city transfigured / Juliana Maxim -- The scope of socialist modernism: architecture and state representation in postwar Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kulić -- 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.

Call Number

JQF 14-470

ISBN

• 9780292757257 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0292757255 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013038461

OCLC

863100111

Title

Sanctioning modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities / edited by Vladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick ; foreword by Frederick Steiner.

Publisher

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kulić, Vladimir, editor.

Parker, Timothy, 1967- editor.

Penick, Monica, 1972- editor.

Doordan, Dennis P., author. Writing history.

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 SA559mo txdocs

Research Call Number

JQF 14-470