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Title Sanctioning modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities / edited by Vladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick ; foreword by Frederick Steiner.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Roger Fullington series in architecture
Roger Fullington series in architecture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Writing history: reflections on the story of midcentury modern architecture / Dennis P. Doordan -- Modernism and the state. Introduction / Vladimir Kulić -- Bucharest: the city transfigured / Juliana Maxim -- The scope of socialist modernism: architecture and state representation in postwar Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kulić -- Czechoslovakia's model housing developments: modern architecture for the socialist future / Kimberly Elman Zarecor -- Sanctioning modernism and tradition: Italian architecture, the vernacular, and the state / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Making religion modern. Introduction / Timothy Parker -- Uncertainty and the modern church: two Roman Catholic cathedrals in Britain / Robert Proctor -- "Humanly sublime tensions": Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio (1965/1970) / Timothy Parker -- Modernism and the concept of reform: liturgy and liturgical architecture / Richard Kieckhefer -- Modernism and domesticity. Introduction / Monica Penick -- "Technologically" modern: the prefabricated house and the wartime experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / Hyun-Tae Jung -- "Modern but not too modern": House beautiful and the American style / Monica Penick -- House and haunted garden / Sandy Isenstadt.
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Subject Modern movement (Architecture)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture and society.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
History.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Kulić, Vladimir, editor.
Parker, Timothy, 1967- editor.
Penick, Monica, 1972- editor.
Doordan, Dennis P. Writing history.
Other Form: Print version: Sanctioning modernism. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014 9780292757257 (DLC) 2013038461 (OCoLC)863100111
ISBN 9780292760646 (electronic book)
0292760647 (electronic book)
9780292757257
0292757255
Sudoc No. Z UA380.8 SA559mo