Main entry:

Grafe, Christoph, 1960-

Title & Author:

People's palaces : architecture, culture and democracy in post-war Western Europe / Christoph Grafe ; with a photo essay by Heidi Specker.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Architectura & Natura, ©2014.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Houses of culture: the rediscovery of a recent history -- Civilising force or experiments with equality? -- Publics and counter-public: buildings for a democratic culture -- From boosting the nation's morale to art administration: culture in the British welfare state -- Two cultures: politics and culture in Sweden in the twentieth century -- André Malraux's Action culturelle: European cultural politics and an act of internal colonisation -- London's South Bank: a modern Acropolis -- Democracy's ballroom; the Royal Festival Hall -- The difficult genesis of a metropolitan arts centre -- Culture in an affluent society -- Views from the sixties: the South Bank Arts Cntre and its defenders -- Stockholm's Kulturhus: a department store for a new man -- The Kulturhus: culture for a future society -- The Kulturhus: design and realisation of a new type of building for culture -- Two European buildings and welfare state culture.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Author Christoph Grafe investigates an architectonic typology, the cultural edifice, which must often take on the role of national identity and culture in the realisation of a democratic society. This book takes two specific projects as its subject: London's South Bank and the Kulturhus in Stockholm. The buildings were chosen as a result of their architectural meaning, and by the fact that they appeared in two countries that fulfilled a leading role in the development of the post-war 'welfare state'; in Europe. Besides an in-depth analysis of the two cities within the context of their wider national and cultural development, the book includes a photo essay by German photographer Heidi Specker.

ISBN:

9789461400413 (paperback)
9461400411 (paperback)

Subject:

Southbank Centre.
Kulturhuset (Stockholm, Sweden)
Arts facilities Europe.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Politics and culture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture Europe, Western 20th century.
Politique et culture Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe de l'Ouest 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Arts facilities.
Politics and culture.
Kulturzentrum
Wohlfahrtsstaat
South Bank (London, England)
England London South Bank.
Europe.
Western Europe.
Westeuropa
Skandinavien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Specker, Heidi

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290208
Call No.: BIB 233058
Status: Available