Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility
A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 May 2025
- ISBN 9781032841076
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white; 7 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.
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Long description:
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.
Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements - the turn of the twentieth century ? and ending with the Nuremberg trials, the book highlights the part played by individual agency, social reform and architecture in moulding a working everyday-definition of what it meant to be international during this time. By viewing internationalism through the lens of the individual and the body, both as initiator and subject, it is repositioned as an integral part of the everyday life, rather than simply understood to be concerned with geopolitical relations between nations and their institutions.
The book furthers a research methodology that is multidisciplinary and transnational, it will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and international history.
?In this fresh and original book, Naina Gupta argues that architectural modernism was shaped by an ?international sensibility? tied to transnational reform networks, such as workers' rights, kindergarten and peace movements. Her hopeful account of how progressivism definitively influenced the modern project provides rich food for thought for scholars and architects today.?
Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK.
?I believe Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation will be a valuable addition to architectural history looking more closely at the politics that constructed specific spatial typologies around a gendered and racial body. It achieves this using a methodology that is multidisciplinary and argues for a transnational historiography.
Tatjana Crossley, Wentworth Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design, Boston, MA.
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List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 ? Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation
Chapter 2 ? Peace Movements and an International Sensibility
Chapter 3 ? Family Reform and Puericulture: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ellen Key
Chapter 4 ? Worker?s Question and Fatigue: Gregor Paulsson and Lillian Gilbreth
Chapter 5 ? Body Reform and Embodying Strength: Jorgen Peter Muller and Isadora Duncan
Chapter 6 ? Educational Reform and Childcare: Friedrich Frobel and Martin A. Couney
Chapter 7 ? International Law and a Shared Language: Dan Kiley and Rafael Lemkin
Chapter 8 ? Conclusion
Bibliography
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