Main entry:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.

Title & Author:

Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War / Jean-Louis Cohen.

Publication:

Description:

447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Apr. 12-Sept. 5, 2011, and at the Nederlands Architectuurinstitut, Dec. 10, 2011-Mar. 25, 2012.
Foreword by Mirko Zardini.
Also issued in French under title: Architecture en uniforme.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overture: the test of war -- Architects and cities go off to war -- Total mobilisation, from the factory to the kitchen -- Producing production and workers' housing -- The menace from the air -- Camouflage, or The temptation of the invisible -- Architects and bombs, from bunkers to napalm -- Mobility and prefabrication -- Macro and micro or the issue of scale -- On the information front -- Alternative futures: occupation and reconstruction -- Recycling, recalling, forgetting.
Shortlisted for the Art Book Prize (formerly Banister Fletcher Prize), 2012.

Summary:

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that during the years between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and of Hiroshima in 1945, specific advances were fundamental to the process of modernization and led to the definitive supremacy of modernism in architecture. Centering the discussion on ten main themes, the author investigates various aspects of architecture's mobilization in the war years, as well as the trajectories of individual architects. He analyzes architectural developments worldwide and takes into account each of the major participants in the war, including the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The book not only focuses on plans, buildings, and technological inventions but also examines the many types of visual representation used for war purposes, enhanced by a rich array of more than 300 illustrations. -- Book Description.

ISBN:

9782754105309 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2754105301 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780920785928
0920785921

Subject:

Architecture and war History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war.
Architecture and war Exhibitions.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) Exhibitions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture et guerre Expositions.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Expositions.
Architecture et guerre Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Art et guerre.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Architecture and war
Architecture, Modern Themes, motives
Architektur
Kriegszerstörung
Wiederaufbau
Rekonstruktion
Weltkrieg
Arkitektur och samhälle historia 1900-talet.
Modernism (arkitektur)
Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i konsten.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Montréal 2011.
Exhibition catalogs
Art
History
Ausstellungskatalog Canadian Centre for Architecture 12.04.2011-05.09.2011 Montréal.
Konferenzschrift.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Zardini, Mirko
Centre canadien d'architecture
Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

Designing and building for the Second World War

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272644
Call No.: NA682.W6 C6 2011a
Copy: c. 4
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 272281
Call No.: 2011-2a
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 272643
Call No.: NA682.W6 C6 2011a
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 272641
Call No.: 2011-2a
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available