Platzer, Monika, author.

Cold war and architecture : the competing forces that reshaped Austria after 1945 / Monika Platzer ; edited by Architekturzentrum Wien.

Zürich : Park Books, [2020]
Bad Vöslau : Printed by Print Alliance HAV Produktions GmbH.
©2020

343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Other than in the case of Berlin, Vienna has never been seen as a theatre of politicized architectural discourse during the Cold War. Yet each of the Allied forces occupying Austria following Nazi Germany's capitulation in 1945 established its own culture program as part of its policy. These also included British, French, American, and Soviet architecture exhibitions, which thus became a backdrop for cultural, ideological, and technological transfer. The impact of these programs on Austria's post-war architecture scene is hardly known today. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at Architekturzentrum Wien, "Cold War and Architecture" now fills this gap. It is a plea to thoroughly review the historical narrative from a national and an architectural perspective. Monika Platzer for the first time contextualizes building activity and its protagonists within the country's cultural debates during the Cold War. She demonstrates to what extent allied occupation forged architectural decision making. Her focus is on previously ignored primary and secondary sources from which a deep, multifaceted picture of post-war modernism in Austria emerges. Exhibition: Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria (17.10.2019 - 24.02.2020)

9783038601753 (paperback)
3038601756 (paperback)

Marshall Plan.
Architecture Austria History 20th century Exhibitions.
Cold War Social aspects Austria Exhibitions.
International relations and culture Exhibitions.
Cultural relations Exhibitions.
Architecture Autriche Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Guerre froide Aspect social Autriche Expositions.
Relations internationales et culture Expositions.
Relations culturelles Expositions.
Social aspects
International relations and culture
Cultural relations
Architecture
Austria History Allied occupation, 1945-1955 Exhibitions.
Autriche Histoire 1945-1955 (Occupation alliée) Expositions.
Austria

Exhibition catalogs
History

Dorsey, Brian, translator.
Feiersinger, Elise, translator.
Architektur Zentrum Wien, editor, host institution.

Parallel titles from cover: Kholodnai︠a︡ voĭna i arkhitektura= Guerre froide et architecture = Kalter Krieg und Architektur
Guerre froide et architecture
Kalter Krieg und Architektur

Location: Library main 307871
Call No.: BIB 253336
Status: Available