The housing project : discourses, ideals, models and politics in 20th century exhibitions / edited by Gaia Caramellino and Stéphanie Dadour.

Title & Author:

The housing project : discourses, ideals, models and politics in 20th century exhibitions / edited by Gaia Caramellino and Stéphanie Dadour.

Publication:

Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

327 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation? from domestic space to urban visions? this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, 'The Housing Project' not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9789462701823 (paperback)
9462701822 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic History 20th century.
Exhibitions History 20th century.
Dwellings History 20th century.
Habitations Histoire 20e siècle.
Expositions Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings
Exhibitions

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Caramellino, Gaia, 1977- editor.
Dadour, Stéphanie, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308725
Call No.: BIB 254077
Status: Available

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