Title & Author:

Between conventional and experimental : mass housing and prefabrication in modernist architecture / edited by Regine Hess... [and 3 others].

Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2024.
©2024

Description:

315 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Introduction / Regine Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Yael Allweil -- Part 1: Housing as architecture for all. Toward a democratic architecture: Norwegian experiments in timber / Maryia Rusak ; Assembling a home: politics, trauma, and the Finnish export of prefabricated homes / Mia Åkerfelt, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Anna Wilczyńska ; Prefabricating a nation: the neighborhood of Ramat HaNasi in Bat Yam, Israel, by Architect Yitzhaq Perlstein / Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan ; The reconstruction of post-earthquake Skopje: an international collection of prefabricted houses in the Cold War era / Tamara Bjažić Klarin -- Part 2: Conventional and experimental in new neighborhoods. Another slab, sheet, and brick in the wall: the surge of prefabrication in Israeli housing, 1960-1980 / Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Yael Allweil ; Massive blocks for Soviet mass housing: standardization and prefabrication in the Soviet Union / Angelo Bertolazzi ; Thamesmead: prefabrication between Utopia and dystopia / Alberto Franchini -- Part 3: Exhibitions and prototypes: architectural mediation through prefabrication. Halls, "Huts," and houses: large exhibitions, prefabrication, and housing / Regine Hess ; The Milan Triennale Exhibitions and the debate on prefabrication in postwar Italy / Ilaria Giannetti and Stefania Mornati ; The living cell typology: exploring Le Courbusier's vision through his Cabanon de vacances / Maria Tassopoulou -- Afterword: How to build? On the handling of existing and newly constructed buildings / Silke Langenberg

Summary:

Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialized construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures...with a geographical emphasis on Europe and Israel, offers innovative approaches to the history of prefabrication. Some explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication's role in the history of global architecture and planning after WWII, notably in the USSR and Italy. The chapters encompass a broad spectrum of topics, including colonial expansion, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialized design. The authors scrutinize the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.-- adapted from Amazon.

ISBN:

9789462704046 paperback
946270404X paperback
electronic book
9789461665515

Subject:

Prefabricated houses Case studies.
Architecture, Modern.
Housing Design and construction.
Maisons préfabriquées Études de cas.

Added entries:

Hess, Regine, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320773
Call No.: 320773
Copy: 1
Status: Available