MAKING A NEW WORLD

01. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-5867-909-3
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1510 g

Reihe: KADOC-Artes

Study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities

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. Making a New World 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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Heynickx, Rajesh

Avermaete, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PROLOGUE

Rajesh Heynickx and Tom Avermaete
Community as a Prism. Re-aligning the Architectural Theory and Practice of the Interwar Period

EXEGESIS

Rajesh Heynickx
Introduction

Thomas Rohkrämer
German Cultural Criticism. The Desire for a Sense of Place and Community
David Matless
Communities of Landscape. Nation, Locality and Modernity in Interwar England
Michiel Dehaene
The (Il)legible City. Civic Survey and the Imagined Community
Hilde Heynen
Modernity and Community. A Difficult Combination

EXPERIENCE

Marieke Kuipers
Introduction
Stuart Evans
Model Homes for Working Class Urban Living
Martin Kohlrausch
'Houses of Glass'. Modern Architecture and the Idea of Community in Poland, 1925-1944
Barry Curtis
Negotiated Modernism. British Suburbia between the Wars
Kenny Cupers
Making Camp. Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth Movements
EXPECTATION
Elizabeth Darling
Introduction
Elizabeth Darling
Nuclei of a Genuine Urban Life. Bringing the Country to the City in 1930s London
Tom Avermaete
Building Internal Colonies. Play, Form and Youth Environments in Interwar France
Hansjakob Ziemer
Modernizing Musical Spaces. Music Halls and Utopian Communities in Frankfurt am Main, 1900-1930
Marieke Kuipers
Colonizing Fresh Air. Community and Reform in Dutch Vacation Colonies and De Vonk

IMAGINATION

Tom Avermaete & Rajesh Heynickx
Introduction
Bruno Notteboom
Images of the Countryside. Landscape, Village and Community in the Discourse of Belgian Farmers
Rajesh Heynickx
A Law of Inertia. The Tower as Site and Symbol in Interwar Flanders
Nader Vossoughian
The Sociology of the City. Otto Neurath and the Concept of Gemeinwirtschaft
Charles van den Heuvel
Envisioning Knowledge Architectures for a World Society. Paul Otlet's Architectural and Epistemic Design Strategies
Bibliography
Index of persons
Authors

Colophon

Über Autor(innen)

Heynickx, Rajesh
Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.

Avermaete, Tom
Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture at Delft University with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.