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Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 /

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kohlrausch, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modernity in Eastern Europe--East European modernism?
  • Architects as experts of the social : a new type entering the European scene
  • Organising new architectural goals
  • Communicating social change through architecture
  • Materialising the international agenda: Warszawa Funkcjonalna
  • Under pressure : modernist architects and the rise of political extremes.