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Making a new world : architecture & communities in interwar Europe

Title
Making a new world : architecture & communities in interwar Europe / Rajesh Heynickx & Tom Avermaete, eds.
Publication
Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Heynickx, Rajesh, 1977-
  • Avermaete, Tom.
Description
252 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Summary
In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations between architecture and modernity. This book analyses the various ways in which these relations were determined. Most activists/entities encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposals - from art exhibitions to séances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitation - these reformists were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 17 contributions to this richly illustrated volume draw the contours of this new world by analysing its foundations and working mechanisms at its heart.
Series Statement
Kadoc artes ; 13
Uniform Title
KADOC artes ; 13.
Alternative Title
  • Architecture & communities in interwar Europe
  • Architecture and communities in interwar Europe
Subject
  • Architecture and society > Europe > History > 20th century > Congresses
  • Modern movement (Architecture) > Europe > Congresses
  • City planning > Social aspects > Europe > Congresses
  • Community development, Urban > Europe > Congresses
Note
  • "This book started from the international colloquium 'Making a new world: reforming and designing modern communities in interwar Europe,' organized by Hilde Heynen and Rajesh Heynickx in June 2006 at KU Leuven, Belgium"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.
ISBN
  • 9789058679093
  • 9058679098
OCLC
  • ocn782105688
  • 782105688
  • SCSB-5661077
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries