BUILDING THE POST-WAR WORLD. MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN
Autor/es
- EAN: 9780415221795
- ISBN: 978-0-415-22179-5
- Editorial: TAYLOR & FRANCIS
- Año de la edición: 2001
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 16 X 24 cm.
- Páginas: 304
- Materias:
historia: arquitectura y arte
teoría: arquitectura y arte
países: arquitectura y arte
gran bretaña: arquitectura y arte
siglo xx
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Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern architecture in Britain. It charts the opportunities created by post-war rebuilding showing how the spirit of innovation and experimentation necessary to winning the war found applications in reconstruction. Above all it shows how hopes for a new and better world became linked to the fortunes of new architecture. Focusing on the first post-war decade, this book contrasts and brings together two forms of architectural history in a single study. The first part focuses on the architectural elite and the debates and key buildings of the new architecture that featured in the leading journals of the time. The second part examines the engagement of modern architecture with reconstruction and the way in which this then leads to new forms of modern practice.
