Overview
The production of this book stems from two of the editorsā longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar reconstruction in Europe.
While the history of postwar reconstruction has been increasingly well covered for most European countries, research investigating postwar architectural magazines and journals across Europe āĀ their role in the discourse and production of the built environment and particularly their inter-relationship and differing conceptions of postwar architecture āĀ is relatively undeveloped. Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal sounds out this territory in a new collection of essays concerning the second phase of the reception and assimilation of modernism in architecture, as it was represented in professional architecture journals during the period of postwar reconstruction (1945ā1968).
Professional architecture journals are often seen as conduits of established facts and knowledge. The role mainstream publications play, however, in establishing āmovementsā, ātrendsā or ādebatesā tends to be undervalued. In the context of the complex undertaking of postwar reconstruction, the shortage of resources, political uncertainty and the biographical complexities of individual architects, theĀ chapters on key European architecture journals collected here reveal how modernist architecture, and its discourse, was perceived and disseminated in different European countries.
This book title, Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal (Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe), ISBN: 9781138945227, by Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Andrew Peckham, published by Taylor & Francis (July 4, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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