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Eve Blau

    Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919 - 1934
    Mythos Großstadt : Architektur und Stadtbaukunst in Zentraleuropa 1890-1937
    Project Zagreb
    Shaping the Great City
    • Shaping the Great City

      Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937

      • 271 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      A wide-ranging study of the city as a site of innovation and experimentation and as the generator of a vibrant culture.

      Shaping the Great City
    • Project Zagreb

      Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice

      • 336 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Zagreb is the perfect site for examining the generative dynamic of transition: currently preparing for Croatia's entry into the European Union and negotiating the rocky shoals of the "transition economy," but also a city in which political and economic transition has been the status quo for the last century and a half. Practicing in conditions of continuous instability, architects and planners in 20th century Zagreb developed new strategies of urbanism and architecture for creatively engaging the transitional, conditional, mutable, and open-ended -- for absorbing, accommodating, anticipating and instrumentalizing the condition of irresolution. This book examines how these strategies, once stabilized in built form, become available to practice, generating new techniques for achieving previously unforeseen results. In this way the city itself becomes an actor in the transformation of architectural and urban practices. Transition thus emerges as a condition that not only foregrounds practice and privileges design over planning, but that also enables architecture to play an active, performative role in the formation of the city itself. Based on new mapping and diagrams, along with many original texts and photos which have never been published, the book features contributions by Hrvoje Njiric, Helena Paver Njiric, Charles S. Maier, Vedran Mimica, Vladimir Mattioni, Ivan Rogic, Fedja Vukic, Snjeska Knezevic, Aleksander Laslo and others. This study was initiated as a seminar at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

      Project Zagreb
    • Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919 - 1934

      • 534 stránok
      • 19 hodin čítania

      1919 initiierte die sozialdemokratische Wiener Stadtregierung ein Reformprogramm um die Infrastruktur nach sozialistischen Vorstellungen zu formen. Das Herzstück des „Roten Wien“ waren die Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 städtische Häuserblöcke, die, verteilt über die ganze Stadt, Wohnraum für ein Zehntel der Stadtbevölkerung bot. Während der Baukampagne wurde Österreich jedoch von einer konservativ-klerikalen, antisozialistischen Mehrheit regiert. In ihrem Buch zeigt Eve Blau wie dieser ideologische Konflikt die Bauten des Roten Wien formte, wie sich die Architektur ihrer eigenen Codes, Praktiken und Geschichte bediente um ihre Position gegenüber den politischen Rahmenbedingungen abzugrenzen. Das Buch, längst Standardwerk in der Architektur- und Kunsthistorikerausbildung, liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor.

      Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919 - 1934
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