Title & Author:

Shaping the great city : modern architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937 / edited by Eve Blau and Monika Platzer ; in association with the Bundesministerium fur Unterricht und Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Vienna [and others] ; with contributions by Friedrich Achleitner [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1999.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition held at the Municipal House, Prague, Dec. 15, 1999-Mar. 1, 2000; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, May 23-Oct. 15, 2000; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Feb. 20-May 13, 2001; Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, June 6-Aug. 28, 2001.
"In association with the Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Vienna, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles."
Published also in French under title L'idée de la grande ville : l'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890-1937.
Published also in German under title Mythos Grossstadt : Architektur und Stadtbaukunst in Zentraleuropa, 1890-1937.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
The city as protagonist : architecture and the cultures of Central Europe / Eve Blau -- City, empire, and imperial aftermath : contending contexts for the urban vision / Charles S. Maier -- Multicultural communities : tensions and qualities, the example of Central Europe / Moritz Csáky -- Urban visions, plans, and projects, 1890-1937 / Renate Banik-Schweitzer -- Planning in two and three dimensions, 1890-1910 -- The Grossstadt, 1910-14 -- Planning on a new scale, 1920-37 -- Urban topography : texture and fabric of the city, 1890-1930 -- The pluralism of modernity : the architectonic "language problem" in Central Europe / Friedrich Achleitner -- The urban development of Budapest -- Inventing a Hungarian architecture : Budapest -- The architectural avant-garde in Prague / Petr Krajči and Rostislav Švácha -- Czech cubism -- Vienna between memory and modernity / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Reworking traditions -- Modern architectural town planning in Zagreb / Aleksander Laslo -- The cosmopolitan ideal -- The architecture of L'viv / Ihor Žuk -- The urban development of Kraków / Jacek Purchla -- In the center of the periphery : Timișoara's urban architectural evolution / Ileana Pintilie -- Urban aspirations on the edge of empire -- Revolutionaries of thought : three sites of innovation / Monika Platzer -- Manifesto architecture -- Neues Bauen in Budapest / András Ferkai -- Postwar avant-garde -- Architecture of inter-war Zagreb / Aleksander Laslo -- Urbanism and modernity in the new Zagreb -- From provincial to national center : Ljubljana / Breda Mihelič -- The persistence of place : Plečnik's Ljubljana -- Grossstadt and proletariat in Red Vienna / Eve Blau -- The social democratic city -- Architecture and society / Rostislav Švácha -- Capitalism and collectivism in the new Czechoslovak state -- CIAM and Central Europe / Monika Platzer -- The functional city -- Publications and public realms : architectural periodicals in the Habsburg Empire and its successor states / Andrew Herscher.

Summary:

The explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first adventurous years of the new republics of Central Europe that followed it is the subject of this stimulating and wide-ranging study.

ISBN:

379132151X (English hardback ed.)
9783791321516 (English hardback ed.)
3791321854 (German hardback ed.)
9783791321851 (German hardback ed.)
379132358X (English pbk. ed.)
9783791323589 (English pbk. ed.)
3791323571 (German pbk. ed.)
9783791323572 (German pbk. ed.)

Subject:

City planning Europe, Central History 20th century.
City planning Europe, Central History 19th century.
Architecture Europe, Central History.
City planning Europe, Central History 19th century Exhibitions.
City planning Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Europe, Central History 19th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Europe centrale Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Architecture Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Urbanisme Europe centrale Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Urbanisme Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture Europe centrale Histoire.
Architecture
City planning
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Stedenbouw.
Architecture Europe, Central 19th century.
Architecture Europe, Central 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Europe, Central.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Europe, Central.
Architecture Europe, Central History 19th century.
Architecture Europe, Central History 20th century.
Central Europe
Osteuropa

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Blau, Eve.
Platzer, Monika.
Obecní dům (Prague, Czech Republic)
Centre canadien d'architecture
Getty Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Kunstforum Wien
Getty Research Institute
Austria. Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kulturelle Angelegenheiten

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 209824
Call No.: NA954 .S5 1999
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 209826
Call No.: 2000-3
Copy: c. 2
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 209825
Call No.: 2000-3
Copy: c. 1
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library main 209823
Call No.: NA954 .S5 1999
Copy: c. 4
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available