Title & Author:

Manufacturing a socialist modernity : the architecture of industrialized housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-56.

Publication:

2008.

Description:

xxvii, 533 leaves : ill., plans, ports. ; 28 cm.

Notes:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 519-533).
Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Phoenix rising : housing and the debates on socialist modernity (1945-1948) -- Ch. 2. Standardization and typification : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice (1948-1950) -- Ch. 3. National in form, socialist in content : sorela and architectural imagery (1948-1956) -- Ch. 4. A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha (1945-1956) -- Ch. 5. The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the panelák (1945-1956) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2008. xxvii, 533 p. : ill., plans, port. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Kroha, Jiří, b. 1893.
Kroha, Jiří, 1893-1974.
Apartment houses Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Architecture and state Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Socialist realism and architecture Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Tchécoslovaquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Réalisme socialiste et architecture Tchécoslovaquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Apartment houses.
Architecture and state.
Socialist realism and architecture.
Czechoslovakia.
Apartment houses Czechoslovakia 1940-1960.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Added entries:

Zarecor, Kimberly Elman.

Architecture of industrialized housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-56

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261374
Call No.: NA7863.C95 Z3 2008
Status: Available