Making a New World
Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe
Edited by Rajesh Heynickx and Tom Avermaete
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Study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities
In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations between architecture and modernity. Making a New World analyses the various ways in which these relations were determined.
Most activists/entities encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposals - from art exhibitions to séances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitation - these reformists were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 17 contributions to this richly illustrated volume draw the contours of this new world by analysing its foundations and working mechanisms at its heart.
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PROLOGUE
Rajesh Heynickx and Tom Avermaete
Community as a Prism. Re-aligning the Architectural Theory and Practice of the Interwar Period
EXEGESIS
Rajesh Heynickx
Introduction
Thomas Rohkrämer
German Cultural Criticism. The Desire for a Sense of Place and Community
David Matless
Communities of Landscape. Nation, Locality and Modernity in Interwar England
Michiel Dehaene
The (Il)legible City. Civic Survey and the Imagined Community
Hilde Heynen
Modernity and Community. A Difficult Combination
EXPERIENCE
Marieke Kuipers
Introduction
Stuart Evans
Model Homes for Working Class Urban Living
Martin Kohlrausch
'Houses of Glass'. Modern Architecture and the Idea of Community in Poland, 1925-1944
Barry Curtis
Negotiated Modernism. British Suburbia between the Wars
Kenny Cupers
Making Camp. Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth Movements
EXPECTATION
Elizabeth Darling
Introduction
Elizabeth Darling
Nuclei of a Genuine Urban Life. Bringing the Country to the City in 1930s London
Tom Avermaete
Building Internal Colonies. Play, Form and Youth Environments in Interwar France
Hansjakob Ziemer
Modernizing Musical Spaces. Music Halls and Utopian Communities in Frankfurt am Main, 1900-1930
Marieke Kuipers
Colonizing Fresh Air. Community and Reform in Dutch Vacation Colonies and De Vonk
IMAGINATION
Tom Avermaete & Rajesh Heynickx
Introduction
Bruno Notteboom
Images of the Countryside. Landscape, Village and Community in the Discourse of Belgian Farmers
Rajesh Heynickx
A Law of Inertia. The Tower as Site and Symbol in Interwar Flanders
Nader Vossoughian
The Sociology of the City. Otto Neurath and the Concept of Gemeinwirtschaft
Charles van den Heuvel
Envisioning Knowledge Architectures for a World Society. Paul Otlet's Architectural and Epistemic Design Strategies
Bibliography
Index of persons
Authors
Colophon
Format: Edited volume - hardback
Size: 280 × 225 × 20 mm
252 pages
ISBN: 9789058679093
Publication: June 01, 2012
Series: KADOC-Artes 13
Languages: English
Stock item number: 66420
Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture at Delft University with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.