Main entry:

Crinson, Mark, author aut

Title & Author:

Rebuilding Babel : modern architecture and internationalism / Mark Crinson.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xiii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-297) and index.
The Architectonic of Community -- World Knowing -- Otlet, Geddes, Neurath -- Well-Ventilated Utopias -- Le Corbusier, CIAM and European Modernism in the 1920s -- Echo Chamber -- The International Style and its Deviations -- Outwards -- Lewis Mumford, Regionalism and Internationalism -- Another World -- Post-War CIAM, India and the Marg Circle -- Epilogue: After the tower.

Summary:

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so the story goes, by people united by one language - were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationalist trends in the 1920s, and again in the immediate post-war years, he underlines how such architecture utilised the themes of a cooperative community of builders and a common language of forms. The 'International Style' was one manifestation of this new way of thinking, but Crinson shows how the aims of modernist architecture frequently engaged with the substance of an internationalist mindset in addition to sharing surface similarities. Bringing together the visionaries of internationalist projects - including Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Berthold Lubetkin, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe - Crinson interweaves ideas of evolution, ecology, utopia, regionalism, socialism, free trade, and anti-colonialism to reveal the possibilities heralded by modernist architecture.

ISBN:

9781784537128 (hardback)
1784537128 (hardback)
(electronic bk.)
9781786722034
1786722038
9781786732033
1786732033

Subject:

Internationalism.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Internationalisme.
Architecture 20e siècle.
internationalism.
Architecture, Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299232
Call No.: BIB 245342
Status: Available