Title & Author:

Walls that teach : on the architecture of youth centres / edited by Susanne Pietsch & Andreas Müller.

Publication:

Heyningen : JAP SAM Books, 2015.

Description:

262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Walls that teach / Andreas Müller, Susanne Pietsch -- Working Lads' Clubs : buildings and equipment (1908) / Charles E.B. Russell, Lilian M. Rigby -- Housing youth work : architecturefor a new social institution / Dolf Broekhuizen -- The home of the Hitler youth at the exhibition Give me four years, Berlin, 1937 /Matthias Donath -- Open door youth work : architectural models(1966) / Wim Hoebink -- Love in the time of pinball / Jennifer Mack -- The recreation centre for people of all ages / Marco Di Nallo -- Withywood Youth Centre / Sue Robertson -- Khrushchev inwonderland : The Pioneer Palace in Moscow's Lenin Hills, 1962 /Susan E. Reid -- Participation and development : Frank van Klingeren's Jeugdgebouw Noord in Amsterdam / Marina van den Bergen,Piet Vollaard -- A thousand youth clubs : architecture, mass leisure and the rejuvenation of post-war France / Tom Avermaete -- Empty factory successfully squatted -- to become a youth centre(1971) / Kreuzberger Stadtteil-Zeitung -- Peter Hübner's self-build youth clubs / Peter Blundell Jones -- Built paradoxes of youth work / Andreas Müller, Susanne Pietsch.

Summary:

"In this house the walls will teach" declared the Soviet news agency Pravda at the inauguration of the Moscow Palace of Young Pioneers in 1962. This statement casually formulates a recurring motif in the history of architecture for youth: the claim to educate through the built environment. Young people were considered ideal targets for this approach of social constructivism due to their ambivalent status as objects of social rights but not yet subjects of political rights. The organisation of youth centres around leisure time activities partially concealed their educational goals and consequently made them all the more pervasive. The pedagogical power of their architecture is found not only in design but also in modes of using, appropriating and inhabiting them.

ISBN:

9789490322427 (paperback)
9490322423 (paperback)

Subject:

Youth centers.
Public architecture.
Maisons de jeunes.
Architecture publique.
youth centers.
Fritidsgårdar.

Added entries:

Pietsch, Susanne, editor.
Müller, Andreas, editor.
Peeters-Huybrechts, Julienne translator.
Durka, Cornelia translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293334
Call No.: BIB 238178
Status: Available