Living with History, 1914-1964
Rebuilding Europe after the First and Second World Wars and the Role of Heritage Preservation / La reconstruction en Europe après la Première et la Seconde Guerre Mondiale et le rôle de la conservation des monuments historiques
Nicholas Bullock (Editor), Luc Verpoest (Editor),
Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands.
This book establishes a status quaestionis for the historiography of wartime and post-war preservation, and sets these particular developments in preservation history in the context of the general evolution of architecture and urbanism. It studies the specific role of conservationists and heritage institutions and administrations in the overall reconstruction, and examines the specific role of architects and planners in preservation matters.
Living with History se concentre sur un aspect particulier de la conservation du patrimoine au XXe siècle : les destructions et la reconstruction d’ après-guerre en Belgique, en France, en Allemagne, en Grande-Bretagne et aux Pays-Bas.
Cet ouvrage dresse un état de la question sous l’ angle de l’ évolution d’ ensemble de l’ architecture et de l’ urbanisme. Il étudie le rôle des conservateurs et des institutions patrimoniales dans la reconstruction en général et examine le rôle spécifique des architectes et urbanistes dans les domaines liés à la conservation.
Introduction / IntroductionNicholas Bullock & Luc Verpoest
1. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HERITAGE / LA RECONSTRUCTION DU PATRIMOINE
Heritage in Time of War / Patrimoine en temps de guerre
Art and Architectural History as Substitutes for Preservation. German Heritage Policy in Belgium during and after the First World War.
Marnix Beyen
‘The German Way of Making Better Cities’. German Reconstruction Plans for Belgium during the First World War.
Wolfgang Cortjaens
The Institutional Framework / Le cadre institutionnel
La France d’un modèle de reconstruction à l’autre, 1918-1945.
Danièle Voldman
Paul Léon, le service des Monuments historiques et la reconstruction. Enjeux et cadre institutionnel.
Arlette Auduc
Le service des Monuments historiques. Acteur de la construction en France, 1940-1950. 86
Patrice Gourbin
After the First World War: case studies / Après la Première Guerre mondiale: études de cas
Les ambiguïtés du régionalisme architectural après la Grande Guerre. L’ exemple de la Flandre française.
Benoît Mihail
Avec ou sans l’histoire? L’ exemple de la reconstruction des églises de Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lorraine française) après la Première Guerre mondiale.
Nicolas Padiou
Alignements urbains et reconstructions après-guerre à Louvain et Saint-Malo.
Anne Moignet-Gaultier
After the Second World War: case studies / Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale: études de cas
Le symbole ou la fonction? La reconstruction des églises protégées après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Céline Frémaux
Les enjeux de la création contemporaine dans la restauration d’un monument classé. Les premiers vitraux de peintres à la cathédrale de Metz, 1952-1965.
Christine Blanchet-Vaque
A Remarkable Continuity between 1930s Ideas and Reconstruction after the Second World War. New Stained-Glass Windows in War-Damaged Churches in the Diocese of Namur (Belgium).
Zsuzsanna Böröcz
Recreating an Urban Atmosphere. The Rebuilding of Three Dutch Towns: Middelburg, Rhenen and Wageningen.
Arjen Looyenga (†)
Histoires sans abri – abris sans histoires. La valeur historique et sociale des monuments reconstruits.
Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper
2. THE HERITAGE OF RECONSTRUCTION / LE PATRIMOINE DE LA RECONSTRUCTION
After the First World War / Après la Premiere Guerre mondiale
Huib Hoste and the Reconstruction of Zonnebeke, 1919-1924.
Patrik Jaspers
Domi or Dom-Ino? The Role of the Genius Loci in Post-war Reconstruction and Interwar Urbanism.
Leen Meganck
Ferdinand De Ruddere as Town Architect of Dendermonde after the First World War. Stylistic Indifference or Balance?
Evert Vandeweghe
After the Second World War / Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Housing for War Victims, 1946-1948. A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government.
Fredie Floré
The Reconstruction of the Croatian Coastal City of Zadar.
Ivana Lazanja
La réception de l’architecture brésilienne à Royan.
Gilles Ragot
Regeneration of the Dutch Residence.
Representation of State and Post-war Reconstruction at The Hague.
Marieke Kuipers
3. HERITAGE, RECONSTRUCTION, PAST AND FUTURE / PATRIMOINE, RECONSTRUCTION, LE PASSÉ ET LE FUTUR
The Remains of War and the Heritage of Post-war Reconstruction in Flanders Today.
Jo Braeken
La fortune critique de la reconstruction. Présence de l’histoire, politique du lien, poétique de l’intervalle.
Emmanuel Doutriaux
Valuing the Past, Seizing the Future. Towards an Architecture of Reconstruction.
Nicholas Bullock
Abbreviations / AbréviationsBibliography / BibliographieIndex of Persons / Index des personnesIndex of Places / Index des noms de lieuxAuthors / AuteursColophon / Colophone
Frequently Asked Questions
What is "Living with History, 1914-1964" about?
Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands.
This book establishes a status quaestionis for the historiography of wartime and post-war preservation, and sets these particular developments in preservation history in the context of the general evolution of architecture and urbanism. It studies the specific role of conservationists and heritage institutions and administrations in the overall reconstruction, and examines the specific role of architects and planners in preservation matters.
Living with History se concentre sur un aspect particulier de la conservation du patrimoine au XXe siècle : les destructions et la reconstruction d’ après-guerre en Belgique, en France, en Allemagne, en Grande-Bretagne et aux Pays-Bas.
Cet ouvrage dresse un état de la question sous l’ angle de l’ évolution d’ ensemble de l’ architecture et de l’ urbanisme. Il étudie le rôle des conservateurs et des institutions patrimoniales dans la reconstruction en général et examine le rôle spécifique des architectes et urbanistes dans les domaines liés à la conservation.
Who edited "Living with History, 1914-1964"?
"Living with History, 1914-1964" was edited by Nicholas Bullock and Luc Verpoest.
Nicholas Bullock is Head of the Department of Architecture and Reader in Architectural and Planning History at the University of Cambridge where he is a Fellow of King's College.
Luc Verpoest is emeritus professor at KU Leuven where he has been teaching architectural history and theory and history of heritage conservation. He is still publishing in these particular research fields.
Is "Living with History, 1914-1964" part of a series?
Yes, "Living with History, 1914-1964" is part of the "KADOC-Artes" series. It's book 12 in the series.
The richly illustrated peer-reviewed book series KADOC Artes offers new insights into the material cultures and legacies of religions in Europe and the world since 1750 from interreligious and transnational perspectives. By means of monographs and edited volumes, the series explores thematic frontiers and embraces innovative methodological approaches in heritage studies. Taken together, KADOC Artes and its companion series KADOC Studies in Religion, Culture and Society represent a diptych featuring the material and immaterial cultures and legacies of religions in Europe and the world from the 18th century onwards.
KADOC ARTES reflects the particular expertise of KADOC – the Interfaculty Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society at KU Leuven – as a heritage institution with particularly rich and diverse documentary holdings, and as an interdisciplinary research center.
KADOC Artes managed by an independent Editorial Board. Books are published in English. The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes.
To submit a book proposal please go to the website of KADOC or consult LUP’s guidelines about submission. The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes. Book proposals may relate to, for example, the representation of religious diversity and the politicization of religious heritage.
All book proposals and manuscripts are subject to double blind peer review involving at least one external reviewer (proposals) or at least two (manuscripts). The editors strive towards completing the review of proposals within two months and of complete manuscripts within five months after submission.
Editorial board
Elena Arigita Maza (Universidad de Granada)
Florian Bock (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Timothy Brittain‐Catlin (University of Cambridge)
James Chappel (Duke University)
Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin)
James Kennedy (Utrecht University)
Franziska Metzger (PH Luzern)
Patrick Pasture (MoSa‐KU Leuven) - chairman
Isabelle Saint‐Martin (EPHE Paris)
Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam)
Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America)
Veerle De Laet (Leuven University Press)
Peter Heyrman (KADOC-KU Leuven) - secretary
Proposals
Proposals and enquiries can be sent to Peter Heyrman.
Please make use of the submission form to present your manuscript or proposal to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.
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Yes, "Living with History, 1914-1964" is published Open Access. It is available under a BY-NC-ND license.
What is the Table of Contents for "Living with History, 1914-1964"?
Introduction / IntroductionNicholas Bullock & Luc Verpoest
1. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HERITAGE / LA RECONSTRUCTION DU PATRIMOINE
Heritage in Time of War / Patrimoine en temps de guerre
Art and Architectural History as Substitutes for Preservation. German Heritage Policy in Belgium during and after the First World War.
Marnix Beyen
‘The German Way of Making Better Cities’. German Reconstruction Plans for Belgium during the First World War.
Wolfgang Cortjaens
The Institutional Framework / Le cadre institutionnel
La France d’un modèle de reconstruction à l’autre, 1918-1945.
Danièle Voldman
Paul Léon, le service des Monuments historiques et la reconstruction. Enjeux et cadre institutionnel.
Arlette Auduc
Le service des Monuments historiques. Acteur de la construction en France, 1940-1950. 86
Patrice Gourbin
After the First World War: case studies / Après la Première Guerre mondiale: études de cas
Les ambiguïtés du régionalisme architectural après la Grande Guerre. L’ exemple de la Flandre française.
Benoît Mihail
Avec ou sans l’histoire? L’ exemple de la reconstruction des églises de Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lorraine française) après la Première Guerre mondiale.
Nicolas Padiou
Alignements urbains et reconstructions après-guerre à Louvain et Saint-Malo.
Anne Moignet-Gaultier
After the Second World War: case studies / Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale: études de cas
Le symbole ou la fonction? La reconstruction des églises protégées après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Céline Frémaux
Les enjeux de la création contemporaine dans la restauration d’un monument classé. Les premiers vitraux de peintres à la cathédrale de Metz, 1952-1965.
Christine Blanchet-Vaque
A Remarkable Continuity between 1930s Ideas and Reconstruction after the Second World War. New Stained-Glass Windows in War-Damaged Churches in the Diocese of Namur (Belgium).
Zsuzsanna Böröcz
Recreating an Urban Atmosphere. The Rebuilding of Three Dutch Towns: Middelburg, Rhenen and Wageningen.
Arjen Looyenga (†)
Histoires sans abri - abris sans histoires. La valeur historique et sociale des monuments reconstruits.
Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper
2. THE HERITAGE OF RECONSTRUCTION / LE PATRIMOINE DE LA RECONSTRUCTION
After the First World War / Après la Premiere Guerre mondiale
Huib Hoste and the Reconstruction of Zonnebeke, 1919-1924.
Patrik Jaspers
Domi or Dom-Ino? The Role of the Genius Loci in Post-war Reconstruction and Interwar Urbanism.
Leen Meganck
Ferdinand De Ruddere as Town Architect of Dendermonde after the First World War. Stylistic Indifference or Balance?
Evert Vandeweghe
After the Second World War / Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Housing for War Victims, 1946-1948. A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government.
Fredie Floré
The Reconstruction of the Croatian Coastal City of Zadar.
Ivana Lazanja
La réception de l’architecture brésilienne à Royan.
Gilles Ragot
Regeneration of the Dutch Residence.
Representation of State and Post-war Reconstruction at The Hague.
Marieke Kuipers
3. HERITAGE, RECONSTRUCTION, PAST AND FUTURE / PATRIMOINE, RECONSTRUCTION, LE PASSÉ ET LE FUTUR
The Remains of War and the Heritage of Post-war Reconstruction in Flanders Today.
Jo Braeken
La fortune critique de la reconstruction. Présence de l’histoire, politique du lien, poétique de l’intervalle.
Emmanuel Doutriaux
Valuing the Past, Seizing the Future. Towards an Architecture of Reconstruction.
Nicholas Bullock
Abbreviations / AbréviationsBibliography / BibliographieIndex of Persons / Index des personnesIndex of Places / Index des noms de lieuxAuthors / AuteursColophon / Colophone
What is the DOI for "Living with History, 1914-1964"?
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Living with History, 1914-1964" is 10.11116/9789461663962.
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