Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Robin Schuldenfrei -- Part. 1: Psychological construction: anxiety of isolation and exposure. 1. Taking comfort in the age of anxiety: Eero Saarinen's womb chair / Cammie McAtee ; 2. The future is possibly past: the anxious spaces of Gaetano Pesce / Jane Pavitt ; 3. Scopophobia/Scopophillia: electric light and the anxiety of the gaze in American postwar domestic architecture / Margaret Maile Petty -- Part 2: Ideological objects: Design and representation. 4. The allegory of the socialist lifestyle: The Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Brussels Expo, its gold medal and the politburo / Ana Miljački ; 5. Assimilating unease: Moholy-Nagy and the wartime/postwar bauhaus in Chicago / Robin Schuldenfrei ; 6. The anxieties of autonomy: Peter Eisenman from Cambridge to House VI / Sean Keller -- Part 3: Societies of consumers: Materialist ideologies and postwar goods. 7. "But a home is not a laboratory": The anxieties of designing for the socialist home in the German Democratic Republic 1950-1965 / Katharina Pfützner ; 8. Architect-designed interiors for a culturally progressive upper-middle class: The implicit political presence of Knoll International in Belgium / Fredie Floré ; 9. Domestic environments: Italian Neo-Avant-Garde design and the politics of Post-Materialism / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- Part 4: Class concerns and conflict: Dwelling and politics. 10. Dirt and disorder: Taste and anxiety in the homes of the British working class / Christine Atha ; 11. Upper west side stories: Race, liberalism, and narratives of urban renewal in postwar New York / Jennifer Hock ; 12. Pawns or prophets? : Postwar architects and Utopian designs for Southern Italy / Anne Parmly Toxey -- From homelessness to homelessness / David Crowley.

Summary:

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 dwelling over the long span of the postwar period. It asks what role material objects, interior spaces, and architecture played in quelling or fanning the anxieties of modernism's ordinary denizens, and how this role informs their legacy today.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780415676083 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415676088 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415676090 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415676096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203142721 (ebk)
0203142721 (ebk)

Subject:

Architecture and society History 20th century.
Domestic space History 20th century.
Civilization, Modern 20th century Psychological aspects.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Espace domestique Histoire 20e siècle.
Civilisation 20e siècle Aspect psychologique.
Architecture and society.
Civilization, Modern Psychological aspects.
Domestic space.
Architektur
Innenarchitektur
Soziologie
Wohnkultur
Gesellschaft
Arkitektur och samhälle.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Schuldenfrei, Robin.

Anxiety, domesticity, and postwar architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287517
Call No.: BIB 228597
Status: Available