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1 online resource |
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Cover; Endorsement; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; A question of genre; Collected texts; Journal complexes; Editorial influence; A visual medium; Marketing and finance; Modernism and reconstruction; Outlook; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 1 Swiss journals 1940-1965: Mirroring the difficult departure into modernity; The celebrated 'Swiss way' and its limitations; Das Werk: mirror of discord post-1945; Sea change 1955: towards Switzerland's second modernity; 1960: modernist epigones? |
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Bauen + Wohnen: international rapport, Swiss accentA new journal's modern self-discovery; International journal in German-speaking countries; Theoretical aspirations; The SIA journals: encounters with technology15; From exception to being international establishment; Notes; References; 2 Postwar editorial conversations in Germany: Baumeister and Baukunst und Werkform; Postwar context; Editors and editors-in-chief; Baumeister and Baukunst und Werkform: Pfister, Leitl, Heimatschutz and Neues Bauen; The 1950s I: Freudenstadt and Hansaviertel.; The 1950s II: the 'Bauhaus debate' |
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1960s: demise of Baukunst und Werkform and emergence of StadtbauweltTowards the end of an era; Journals and the status quo: imperative or reflection?; Notes; References; 3 The free bird and its cages: Dutch architectural journals in the first decade after the Second World War; Think, build, write. All of these are just constructions.; Notes; References; 4 Nation building: Sweden's modernisation and the autonomy of the profession; Apollo and Dionysus; From master builder to architect; Disinterest in and lack of understanding architectural quality; The field of architecture |
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The Nordic connectionNotes; References; 5 Visual sensibility and the search for form: The Architectural Review in postwar Britain; Visual culture and 'Townscape'; The 'Functional Tradition'; 'Subtopia' and the degraded environment; New modernisms; Banham: the rigour of the new avant-garde; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Axe or mirror?: Architectural journals in postwar Hungary; Reconstruction and engagement: journals and party struggles (1945-1949); The Stalinist dictatorship: interlude (1949-1956); Return to the abandoned path or a new start? 1956-1963; Notes; References |
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7 Periodicals and the return to modernity after the Spanish Civil War: Arquitectura, Hogar y Arquitectura and ... Revista Nacional de Arquitectura and Arquitectura: chronicles of an era; Hogar y Arquitectura: Carlos Flores' hybrid; Nueva Forma: 'recreation and instruction'; A balanced content: the international in a local context; Notes; References; 8 The Greek vision of postwar modernity; Notes; References; 9 Architecture d'aujourd'hui, the André Bloc years; The pre-war champion of modern architecture; Wartime closure and rebirth in the summer of 1945; Degrees of difference |
| Summary |
The production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar reconstruction in Europe. Professional architecture journals are often seen as conduits of established facts and knowledge. The role mainstream publications play, however, in establishing 'movements', 'trends' or 'debates' tends to be undervalued. In the context of the complex undertaking of postwar reconstruction, the shortage of resources, political uncertainty and the biographical complexities of individual architects, thechapters on key European architecture journals collected here reveal how modernist architecture, and its discourse, was perceived and disseminated in different European countries. While the history of postwar reconstruction has been increasingly well covered for most European countries, research investigating postwar architectural magazines and journals across Europe -their role in the discourse and production of the built environment and particularly their inter-relationship and differing conceptions of postwar architecture -is relatively undeveloped. Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal sounds out this territory in a new collection of essays concerning the second phase of the reception and assimilation of modernism in architecture, as it was represented in professional architecture journals during the period of postwar reconstruction (1945-1968) |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
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Architecture -- Historiography.
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Architectural criticism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Architectural criticism.
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Architecture -- Historiography.
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Architecture, Modern.
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Europe.
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History.
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Periodicals.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmiedeknecht, Torsten, editor
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Peckham, Andrew, editor
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Allenspach, Christoph.
Swiss journals 1940-1965
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| ISBN |
9781315671543 |
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1315671549 |
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1317370449 |
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9781317370444 |
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9781317370451 |
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1317370457 |
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