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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779132403321

Titolo

Atomic dwelling : anxiety, domesticity, and postwar architecture / / edited by Robin Schuldenfrei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-87438-4

9786613715692

1-136-49860-5

1-136-49859-1

0-203-14272-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchuldenfreiRobin

Disciplina

720.1/03

Soggetti

Architecture and society - History - 20th century

Domestic space - History - 20th century

Civilization, Modern - 20th century - Psychological aspects

ARCHITECTURE - Urban & Land Use Planning

Architecture and society

Civilization, Modern - Psychological aspects

Domestic space

Architektur

Innenarchitektur

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Atomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Psychological Constructions: Anxiety of Isolation and Exposure; Chapter 1 Taking Comfort in The Age of Anxiety: Eero Saarinen's Womb Chair; Chapter 2 The Future is Possibly Past: The Anxious Spaces of Gaetano Pesce; Chapter 3 Scopophobia/Scopophilia: Electric Light and the Anxiety of the Gaze in American Postwar Domestic Architecture; Part 2 Ideological Objects: Design and Representation

Chapter 4 The Allegory of the Socialist Lifestyle: The Czechoslovak



Pavilion at the Brussels Expo, its Gold Medal and the PolitburoChapter 5 Assimilating Unease: Moholy-Nagy and the Wartime/Postwar Bauhaus in Chicago; Chapter 6 The Anxieties of Autonomy: Peter Eisenman from Cambridge to House VI; Part 3 Societies of Consumers: Materialist Ideologies and Postwar Goods; Chapter 7 "But a home is not a laboratory": The Anxieties of Designing for the Socialist Home in the German Democratic Republic 1950-1965

Chapter 8 Architect-Designed Interiors for a Culturally Progressive Upper-Middle Class: The Implicit Political Presence of Knoll International in BelgiumChapter 9 Domestic Environments: Italian Neo-Avant-Garde Design and the Politics of Post-Materialism; Part 4 Class Concerns and Conflict: Dwelling and Politics; Chapter 10 Dirt and Disorder: Taste and Anxiety in the Homes of the British Working Class; Chapter 11 Upper West Side Stories: Race, Liberalism, and Narratives of Urban Renewal in Postwar New York

Chapter 12 Pawns or Prophets?: Postwar Architects and Utopian Designs for Southern ItalyCoda; From Homelessness to Homelessness; Illustration Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the years of reconstruction and economic boom that followed the Second World War, the domestic sphere encountered new expectations regarding social behaviour, modes of living, and forms of dwelling. This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life, offering a timely reassessment of culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life.This collection contains essays that examine the material of art, objects, and spaces in the context of practices of