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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"architectural modernism"”.
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German Architectural Modernism, Spatial Perpetration and the Concentration Camp, 1933–1945
… manifestations of Nazi ideology and modernist architectural theories of standardisation and efficiency. Combining architectural theory with historical methodology, this interdisciplinary project explores the theoretical and tangible connections that exist through two case studies. Firstly, …
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Unstitching Rex Trueform: exploring apartheid modernity and architectural modernism through the Rex Trueform garment factory, Salt River 1937 - 2013
… of the site into an office park in 2013. Architecturally, the buildings are key works by pioneer modernist architects, Policansky, Andrews and Niegeman . The analysis of the form and the space of the buildings is interlocked with an analysis of the conditions with in which these distinct …
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Architectural modernism and apartheid modernity in South Africa a critical inquiry into the work of architect and urban designer Roelof Uytenbogaardt, 1960-2009
… and speculates about the persistence of modernism in contemporary spatial practice. Through examining both the conception and reception of Uytenbogaardt’s buildings and urban plans, the work locates modernist approaches to design prevalent in architecture and urban design as products of …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
… the confluence of cultural modernity and architectural Modernism. The apartment as social space revealed the desire of inhabitants, architects, and interior designers for change that was informed by political and cultural ideals of the West, reconfigured by postwar geopolitics. Residents …
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UN2 : reconfiguring the world city
… in terms of global politics and architectural modernism--was to be continuous and encompassing. Sixty years later, however, the UN's physical and governmental infrastructures find themselves desperately out-of-date and decreasingly relevant on the world scene; the decay of the …
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Moderate utopias : the reconstruction of urban space and modernist principles in postwar France
… that control them, this thesis studies the architectural manifestation of this transformation. Through the discursive projects set out in the journals I'Architecture d'aujourd'hui and Techniues et Architecture, as well as through a study of Orleans, Le Havre, and Maubeuge - reconstruction …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
… conditions that, in 1955, allowed the British Architectural Review to talk about a "Latin American manner" in architectural modernism. Architectural historians and critics outside the region noticed the contours of a Latin American modern style on the period roughly between 1939 and 1955 and …
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Transactive Environments: The Architecture of Progressive Education at Dartington Hall School
… educational and social life in relation to the architectural design and subsequent use of its buildings. In doing so, it highlights architecture’s role in forming material and spatial conceptions of the progressive educational environment, as well as how the new education influenced …
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Building Alvar Aalto's Church of the Three Crosses (1955–58)
… influences were not extrinsic or peripheral to architectural modernism, but intrinsic and intimately related to it. The Church of the Three Crosses stands at the centre of the thesis, but is interrogated with reference to Aalto’s other religious projects, both realised and unrealised. The Church …
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Graphing theory : new mathematics, design, and the participatory turn
… I begin by locating the graph's entry into architectural theory at transitions and transactions of mathematical and architectural modernism. Mathematical modernism promoted a structural model of disciplinary knowledge free of empirical intuitions, while boosting new mathematical varieties …
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L'appareil de l'architecture moderne : new materials and architectural modernity in France, 1889-1934
… by new building materials in the formation of architectural modernism in France. It proceeds on the theoretical assumption that a "material" is not a technical given -- a securely defined entity in the physical and linguistic senses -- but an architectural construct whose "inherent properties" …
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Speculating on architecture : morality, the new real estate, and the bourgeois apartment industry in late nineteenth-century France
… been largely ignored within the discipline of architectural history, or even written off altogether as an inevitable consequence of modem capitalism. But the history of the commodification of architecture is by no means as simple as it may seem. It has its roots in Haussmann's Paris, and the …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
<p>Long before “modernism” achieved currency as a literary term, a striking number of British authors turned to what had already been termed “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, …