Brokers of Modernity

East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 19101950

Martin Kohlrausch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2023
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-348-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Martin Kohlrausch is professor of European Political History and head of the research unit Modernity and Society at the KU Leuven.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Übersetzer	Anastasia Rudakova
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-348-9 / 9798887193489
Zustand	Neuware