Title & Author:

Anxious modernisms : postwar architectural culture, 1943-1968.

Publication:

[1999]

Description:

14 audio discs (798 min., 22 sec.) ; 12 cm consultation copy

Notes:
CCA event no.: C-102654 and C-102655.
Title from conference program.
Only consultation copy screened.
Content of original DAT cassettes reformatted onto 14 compact discs in 2011.
Morning session, "The traumas of war", Apr. 30, 1999: sound discs (CD): Disc 1. [Opening remarks] / Phyllis Lambert. [Opening remarks] / Kurt W. Forster. [Opening remarks] / Réjean Legault. [Session introduction] / Jean-Louis Cohen. Jaap Bakema and the fight for freedom / Cor Wagenaar. [Question period] -- Disc 2. [Question period continued]. Postwar Germany and the dispute about a new monumentality / Hartmut Frank. [Question period] -- Disc 3. [Question period continued]. Putting Metabolism back in place : the making of a radically decontextualized architecture in Japan / Cherie Wendelken -- Disc 4. Metabolism back in place : the making of a radically decontextualized architecture in Japan / Cherie Wendelken [continued]. [Question period].
Afternoon session, "The predicaments of subjectivity", Apr. 30, 1999: sound discs (CD): Disc 5. [Opening remarks] / Réjean Legault. [Session introduction] / Neil Levine. Freedom's authentic domiciles : proposals by Alison and Peter Smithson / Sarah Williams Goldhagen. [Question period] -- Disc 6. [Question period continued]. Constructed situations / Jean-Louis Violeau. [Question period] -- Disc 7. Aesthetic amortization : Richard Neutra and the psychology of architectural consumption / Sandy Isenstadt. [Question period] -- Disc 8. [Question period continued].
Morning session, "Contested technologies", May 1, 1999: sound discs (CD): Disc 9. [Session introduction] / Michael Hays. Between the glass curtain and the iron curtain : reflections on architecture during the early cold war / Joan Ockman. [Question period] -- Disc 10. [Question period continued]. Computer architectures : Saarinen's patterns, IBM's brains / Reinhold Martin. [Question period] -- Disc 11. [Question period continued]. Cedric Price's Fun Palace : cybernetic theory and the architecture of performance / Mary Louise Lobsinger. [Question period].
Afternoon session, "The politics of the vernacular", May 1, 1999: sound discs (CD): Disc 12. [Session introduction] / Kurt W. Forster. On neo-realism and architecture in Italy / Maristella Casciato. [Question period] -- Disc 13. [Question period continued]. Allegories of dwelling and nomadism / Felicity Scott. [Question period] -- Disc 14. [Question period continued]. [Closing remarks] / Sarah Williams Goldhagen. [Discussion].
Recorded and produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Speakers: Cor Wagenaar, Hartmut Frank, Cherie Wendelken, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Jean-Louis Violeau, Sandy Isenstadt, Joan Ockman, Reinhold Martin, Mary Louise Lobsinger, Maristella Casciato, Felicity Scott; session leaders: Jean-Louis Cohen, Michael Hays, Neil Levine, Kurt W. Forster.
Paper presentations and question periods in English; question period recorded on Disc 6 includes comments in French.

Summary:

Sound recordings of the conference "Anxious modernisms : postwar architectural culture, 1943-1968", presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Apr. 30 and May 1, 1999, in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Includes opening remarks by Phyllis Lambert, Kurt W. Forster and Réjean Legault.

Subject:

Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)
Modern movement (Architecture) Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) Congresses.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Congrès.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Congrès.
Architecture, Modern.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Modern Movement.
Architecture (object genre)
Architectural theory.
Modernist Architecture (object genre)

Form/genre:

Reformatted audiovisual materials.
Colloquiums.
Lectures.
Sound recordings.
Digital audio tapes.
Optical disks.
Compact discs.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Legault, Réjean, 1956-
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Lambert, Phyllis.
Forster, Kurt Walter.
Cohen, Jean-Louis.
Wagenaar, Cor.
Wendelken, Cherie.
Frank, Hartmut, 1942-
Levine, Neil, 1941-
Violeau, Jean-Louis.
Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957-
Ockman, Joan.
Martin, Reinhold, 1964-
Lobsinger, Mary Louise.
Hays, K. Michael.
Casciato, Maristella.
Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston, 1965-
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)

Postwar architectural culture, 1943-1968

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