Volume 1 Re-Humanizing Architecture: New Forms of Community, 1950-1970

Published by Birkhäuser 2017

Volume 1 Re-Humanizing Architecture

New Forms of Community, 1950-1970

Edited by: Ákos Moravánszky and Judith Hopfengärtner

Part of the multi-volume work East West Central

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035608113

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Europe’s architectural trends 1950 -1970

After the Second World War, a divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems – in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, the focus was on cohesion in society and its cultural and architectural expression. In parallel to the rapidly progressing industrialization of the building industry, debates on the humanization of the built environment were led on both sides with great intensity. The volume shows how, on the back of existentialism, new monumentality, and socialist realism, quite similar concepts and strategies were developed in order to find answers to questions relating to adequate structures for new forms of community and identity.

Architectural parallels between different political systems in Europe
People, rules, buildings, theories – a synopsis in a new dimension
Contributions by numerous international experts

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Ákos Moravánszky, Judith Hopfengärtner, ETH Zürich

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe Ákos Moravánszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Judith Hopfengärtner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
I. Discourses on Humanism
Re-Humanizing Architecture: The Search for a Common Ground in the Postwar Years, 1950–1970 Ákos Moravánszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
CIAM: From “Spirit of the Age” to the “Spiritual Needs” of People Annie Pedret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Was Humanized Socialist Modernism Possible After All? The Promise and Failure of Mass Housing in Hungary Béla Kerékgyártó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Mieczysław Porębski: Man and Architecture in the Iconosphere Wojciech Bałus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
II. Building New Societies
Continuity or Discontinuity? Narratives on Modern Architecture in East and West Germany during the Cold War Hilde Heynen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Building Together: Construction Sites in a Divided Europe During the 1950s Nikolas Drosos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Building a New Warsaw, Building a Social Warsaw: The First Reconstruction Plans and Their International Review Marcela Hanáčková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Building a New Community – A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia Marijke Martin and Cor Wagenaar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
“Social Efficiency” and “Humanistic Specificity”: A Double Discourse in Romanian Architecture in the 1960s Dana Vais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Sociological and Environmental- Psychology Research in Estonia during the 1960s and 1970s: A Critique of Soviet Mass-Housing Karin Hallas-Murula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
III. The Urban Context
Bogdan Bogdanović and the Search for a Meaningful City Vladimir Kulić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
From “New Units of Settlement” to the Old Arbat: The Soviet NĖR Group’s Search for Spaces of Community Elke Beyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Theories and Practices of Re-Humanizing Postwar Italian Architecture: Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Giancarlo De Carlo Luca Molinari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Urban Planning and Christian Humanism: The Institut Supérieur d’Urbanisme Appliqué in Brussels under Gaston Bardet Sven Sterken and Eva Weyns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
The Monumentality of the Matchbox: On “Slabs” and Politics in the Cold War Stanislaus von Moos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Between City and University: New Monumentality in the Student Center of the Campus of Coimbra Susana Constantino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
IV. The Inhabited Nature
Socialist Pastoral: The Role of Folklore in Socialist Architectural Culture, 1950s and 1960s Juliana Maxim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Dwelling in the Middle Landscape: Rethinking the Architecture of Rural Communities at CIAM 10 Nelson Mota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
A Desire for Innocence? Community and Recreational Architecture around Lake Balaton Domonkos Wettstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Unexpected Side Effects: Indirect Benefits of International Mass Tourism on Croatia’s Adriatic Coast Michael Zinganel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Appendix
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architekten, Architekturhistoriker, Kunsthistoriker, Studenten
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 170
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Post War Modernism; Europe; Archtiectural History; Architekturgeschichte; Nachkriegsmoderne; Europa

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783035608113

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783035610154