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portada Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power - A Global History
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
688
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
24.4 x 18.8 x 3.6 cm
Weight
1.88 kg.
ISBN13
9781474222501
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Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power - A Global History

Miles Glendinning (Author) · Bloomsbury Visual Arts · Paperback

Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power - A Global History - Glendinning, Miles

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Synopsis "Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power - A Global History"

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)"It will become the standard work on the subject." Literary Review This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style - became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Providing a global approach to the history of Modernist mass-housing production, this authoritative study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, cultural aspects of mass housing - particularly the 'mass' politics of power and state-building throughout the 20th century. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and the East - where it asks: Are we facing a new dawn for mass housing, or another 'great housing failure' in the making?

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