{"product_id":"sanctioning-modernism-architecture-and-the-making-of-postwar-identities-paperback-softback-9781477307595","title":"Sanctioning Modernism; Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477307595","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSanctioning Modernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArchitecture and the Making of Postwar Identities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVladimir Kulic (Edited by), Timothy Parker (Edited by), Monica Penick (Edited by), Frederick Steiner (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477307595, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 55 b\u0026amp;w photos, 35 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith new research on building programs in political, religious, and domestic settings in the United States and Europe, this collection of essays offers a fresh look at postwar modernism and the role that architecture played in constructing modern identities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction-and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture has come under increasing criticism. In this collection of essays, experienced and emerging scholars take a fresh look at postwar modern architecture by asking what it meant to be “modern,” what role modern architecture played in constructing modern identities, and who sanctioned (or was sanctioned by) modernism in architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents focused case studies of modern architecture in three realms-political, religious, and domestic-that address our very essence as human beings. Several essays explore developments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia and document a modernist design culture that crossed political barriers, such as the Iron Curtain, more readily than previously imagined. Other essays investigate various efforts to reconcile the concerns of modernist architects with the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian institutions. And a final group of essays looks at postwar homebuilding in the United States and demonstrates how malleable and contested the image of the American home was in the mid-twentieth century. These inquiries show the limits of canonical views of modern architecture and reveal instead how civic institutions, ecclesiastical traditions, individual consumers, and others sought to sanction the forms and ideas of modern architecture in the service of their respective claims or desires to be modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick Steiner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Writing History: Reflections on the Story of Midcentury Modern Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDennis P. Doordan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Modernism and the State\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVladimir Kulić\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Bucharest: The City Transfigured\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuliana Maxim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVladimir Kulić\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Czechoslovakia's Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKimberly Elman Zarecor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Sanctioning Modernism and Tradition: Italian Architecture, the Vernacular, and the State\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichelangelo Sabatino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Making Religion Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTimothy Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Two Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Proctor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. \"Humanly sublime tensions\": Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio (1965–1970)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTimothy Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Kieckhefer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III: Modernism and Domesticity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Penick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. \"Technologically\" Modern: The Prefabricated House and the Wartime Experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHyun-Tae Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. \"Modern but not too modern\": House Beautiful and the American Style\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Penick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. House and Haunted Garden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSandy Isenstadt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676692279576,"sku":"9781477307595","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sanctioning-modernism-architecture-and-the-making-of-postwar-identities-paperback-softback-9781477307595","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}