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Rebuilding Babel : modern architecture and internationalism / Mark Crinson.
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Crinson, Mark
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English
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London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
©2017
Description
xiii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Bloomsbury Architecture Library 2020 Update
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NA680 .C75 2017
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Internationalism
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Architecture, Modern
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20th century
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Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so the story goes, by people united by one language - were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationalist trends in the 1920s, and again in the immediate post-war years, he underlines how such architecture utilised the themes of a cooperative community of builders and a common language of forms.The 'International Style' was one manifestation of this new way of thinking, but Crinson shows how the aims of modernist architecture frequently engaged with the substance of an internationalist mindset in addition to sharing surface similarities. Bringing together the visionaries of internationalist projects - including Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Berthold Lubetkin, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe - Crinson interweaves ideas of evolution, ecology, utopia, regionalism, socialism, free trade, and anti-colonialism to reveal the possibilities heralded by modernist architecture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Architectonic of Community
World Knowing
Otlet, Geddes, Neurath
Well-Ventilated Utopias
Le Corbusier, CIAM and European Modernism in the 1920s
Echo Chamber
The International Style and its Deviations
Outwards
Lewis Mumford, Regionalism and Internationalism
Another World
Post-War CIAM, India and the Marg Circle
Epilogue: After the tower.
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9781784537128 ((hardback))
1784537128 ((hardback))
OCLC
993073299
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