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oapen-20.500.12657-258632023-10-02T07:29:09Z Brokers of Modernity Kohlrausch, Martin modernism architecture urbanism modernist architects East Central Europe bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture "The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe. 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." 2019-05-13 14:54:12 2020-04-01T10:51:35Z 2020-04-01T10:51:35Z 2019 book 1004223 OCN: 1100535190 9789462701724 9789461662781 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25863 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789461662545.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461662545 10.11116/9789461662545 91436d3b-fb9a-45e9-8a57-08708b92dcda 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 67a139a1-dcb6-4ccb-aaad-5dc957ae915d 9789462701724 9789461662781 400 Leuven KU Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Volkswagen Foundation VolkswagenStiftung open access
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"The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe.
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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