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Author Kohlrausch, Martin, author.

Title Brokers of modernity : East Central Europe and the rise of modernist architects, 1910-1950 / Martin Kohlrausch.

Publication Info. Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, 2019.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe?s age of extremes intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today.
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Contents 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.
Language English.
Subject Modern movement (Architecture) -- Europe, Eastern.
Architecture -- Europe, Eastern.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) -- Europe de l'Est.
Architecture -- Europe de l'Est.
History of architecture.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Architecture
Modern movement (Architecture)
Eastern Europe
Indexed Term modernism
architecture
urbanism
modernist architects
East Central Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: KOHLRAUSCH, MARTIN. BROKERS OF MODERNITY. [Place of publication not identified] : LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019 9462701725 (OCoLC)1085637420
ISBN 9789461662545 (electronic bk.)
9461662548 (electronic bk.)
9462701725
9789462701724
9789461662781 (online)
9461662785
Standard No. 10.11116/9789461662545 doi
AU@ 000065260397
AU@ 000066379886
AU@ 000065101463

 
    
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