Brokers of modernity East Central Europe and the rise of modernist architects, 1910-1950
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. 'Brokers of Modernity' reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leuven (Belgium)
Leuven University Press
2019, 2019
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Modernity in Eastern Europe
- East European modernism?
- Architects as experts of the social : a new type entering the European scene
- Organising new architectural goals
- Communicating social change through architecture
- Materialising the international agenda: Warszawa Funkcjonalna
- Under pressure : modernist architects and the rise of political extremes