Description
Eighth International Docomomo Conference
Postwar Modernism in an Expanding World, 1945–75, New York (September 26–October 2, 2004), (502 p.)
Introduction
Docomomo US and Change in Preservation in America by Theodore H.M. Prudon & Hélène Lipstadt — The 2004 Conference Theme by Hélène Lipstadt
Internationalization
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Van Ginkel, Blanche Lemco and the Internationalization of CIAM by Kelly Crossman — Brazilian Modernism on the European Campus: The Casas do Brasil in Paris and Madrid by Martina Millà Bernad — Sunset or Sunrise? Modernist Embassy Architecture and the Twilight of British Empire by Miles Glendinning — Socialist Realism vs. Socialist Modernism: History and Meanings of the Tower of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia by Vladimir Kulic — Claude Laurens and a New Architecture for ‘le Nouveau Congo:’ Assessing Postwar Tropical Modernism in a Colonial Context by John Lagae — (Inter)nationalizing Modernism: The Case of Finnish Architecture by Petra Ceferin — The Demonstration of Everyday Modernism: Documenting the Architecture of the VIIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Western Australia of 1962 by Hannah Lewi — Internationalization at the New York World’s Fair of 1964–65 by Julie Nicoletta — Influence and Transformation: The Saskatchewan Power Corporation Headquarters by Bernard Flaman — A Modern Museum in an Old House by the Sea: Lina Bo Bardi and the Modernism of Bahia by Silvana Rubino — Augusto H. Alvarez: Pioneer and Innovator of Mexican Modernity by Maria de Lourdes Cruz Gonzalez Franco — From International to National and Back: The Heritage of Modern Movement in the New Socialist Town of Nowa Huta by Roberta Chionne — Kunio Maekawa’s ‘Technical Approach’ to the Creation of a Modern Japanese Architecture by Hiroshi Matsukuma — Study on Collaborative Projects by Modern Architects: Urban Design Projects from 1945–70 by Yasunori Kitao — The Role of Architectural Precast Concrete Technology in the Internationalization of Postwar Modernism by Jack Pyburn — 1945–70: How the Media Built Brazilian Architecture by Beatriz Santos de Oliveira — Negotiating Diversities: Passages to Modernity of Post-independence India: 1945–57 by Kiran Joshi — The Iconic and the Ordinary by Ela Kaçel — The United Nations Headquarters in the 21st Century: Restore or Rethink by David N. Fixler — Is Modernism Un-American? Rethinking Richard Neutra’s Monumental ‘Failure’ at Gettysburg by Christine Madrid French
Polarization
Fading Architecture of Progress: Modernizing Hong Kong and ‘Liberated’ China, 1945–66 by Jeffrey W. Cody — The Stalinstadt Experiment: East Germany, 1950–61 by Lars Scharnholz — Another Kind of Modernism: Trends in Postwar Architectural Ideology and Practice in Socialist Bulgaria 1944–89 by Milena Metalkova-Markova — Ideology and Aesthetics in Brazilian-US Relations 1945–60 by Sonia Marques & Guilah Naslavsky — Deconstructing Formalism: Socialist Realism versus Modernist Architecture by Carmen Popescu — Postwar Low-cost Housing in South Africa: Ideal and Reality by Alta Steenkamp
Reconstruction and Rebuilding
The Reconstruction of Dunkirk by Philippe Louguet — The Reconstruction of Le Havre (1945–59): Perret Confronts Industrialized Construction, or the Demise of the Frame by Yvan Delemontey — Something Old, Something New: Postwar Planning and Preservation in Paris by Tami Hausman — Irredentist Urbanism: Border Dispute, Rapprochement and Modern Architecture in Alsace-Lorraine, 1945–65 by Charissa N. Terranova — The Postwar Productions of the Public Works Department of Singapore (PWD) by Wong Yunn Chii — To Rationalize, Functionalize, and Internationalize Japan: The Role of the Architects in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in the Postwar Period, The Case of Hideo Kosaka by Kenji Watanabe & Yoshiyuki Yamana — Groothandelsgebouw Rotterdam Reviewed by Hielkje Zijlstra — The Future has a Dubious Past: The Ambiguous Role of the ‘Old’ in the Plan for the ‘New Warsaw,’ 1949–55 by David Snyder — Late Modern Buildings in a Historic Town Center: A Case Study by Grazyna Hryncewicz-Lamber — The Reconstruction of the ‘Mostra D’Oltremare’ in Naples by Paola Ascione & Marisa Zuccaro — Vällingby Center: Stockholm after Fifty Years, Preservation and Revitalization by Britt Wisth — Architectural Ideals in Rebuilding and Rehabilitation of Modern Housing by Sonja Viden
Resistance and Independence
Preservation as Confrontation in the Work of Lina Bo Bardi by Zeuler R. Lima — The Sao Paulo Museum of Art by Marcos José Carrilho — Eladio Dieste’s Latin American Modernity by Pablo Castro & Jennifer Lee — Alternate Visions for a Modern Singapore by Dinesh Naidu, Ho Weng Hin & Tan Kar Lin — The International and the Regional in Late Twentieth Century Bosnian Architecture by Erika Tapp — Justifying the Ornamental in Postwar Modernism: Rudolph’s Arts Center at Wellesley by John Rhodes — Australian Resistance, Subsequent Fall: Modernism and the National Gallery of Victoria (1968) by Philip Goad — Brussels: Postwar Modernity and the City, Confrontational Testimony of a Changing Political Debate by Iwan Strauven & Benoît Moritz — ‘The Hidden Face of the Sun:’ European Travelers in American Counterculture by Caroline Maniaque
Time Zones
The IS Bank Skyscraper: The Modern Office Block in Turkey by Elvan Altan Ergut — The Impact of Modernity and Tradition in Post-1950 Kathmandu Valley Architecture by Biresh Shah
Utopias
Utopia Above Utopia: Oscar Niemeyer’s Negev Plan, Israel, 1964 by Zvi Elhyani — Kenzo Tange and the Skopje City Center Reconstruction Plan by George Kunihiro — ‘Ecumenopolis:’ Doxiadis’s City of the Future by Panayiota Pyla — Rudolf Schwarz and the City-Landscape: Can the Urban Save the Rural? by Panos Mantziaras — The Brussels Atomium and the Popular Appeal of ‘Humanized’ Nuclear Science by Rika Devos, Charlotte Nys & Michel Provost — Ephemerality or Permanence? Cedric Price’s Inter-action Center by Mary-Louise Lobsinger
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