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The architecture of red Vienna 1919-1934

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In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along socialist lines. The centrepiece and most enduring achievement of "Red" Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers' dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics, theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. The 64,000 units housed one tenth of the city's population. Throughout this socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative, clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent, political conflict between left and right. In this book, Eve Blau looks at how that ideological conflict shaped the buildings of Red Vienna--in terms of their programme, spatial conception, language, and use--as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in architecture. She shows how the architecture of Red Vienna constructed meaning in relation to the ideological conflicts that defined Austrian politics in the interwar period--how it was shaped by the conditions of its making, and how it engaged its own codes, practices, and history to stake out a political position in relation to those conditions. Her investigation sheds light both on the complex relationship among political program, architectural practice, and urban history in interwar Vienna, and on the process by which architecture can generate a collective discourse that includes all members of society.

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Project Zagreb: transition as condition, strategy, practice

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Transition is a condition that creates opportunities for architecture and urbanism. Zagreb is the perfect site for examining this generative dynamic: practicing in conditions of continuous instability, its architects and planners developed strategies for creatively engaging the conditional and openended for anticipating and instrumentalizing the condition of irresolution. Moving between texts, maps, and diagrams, Project Zagreb reads the city as an open work, dynamic but coherent, in which architecture plays an active role in the formation of both urban practices and the city itself.

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Architecture and its image: four centuries of architectural representation

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A look at architectural representation through the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Texts by Eve Blau, Robert Bruegmann, Robin Evans, Edward Kaufman, Hélène Lipstadt, and William Alexander McClung.

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Architecture and cubism

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This collection of essays commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture examines the relationship of avant-garde practices in early twentieth century painting to architecture. Contributions by Jay Bochner, Yve-Alain Bois, Beatriz Colomina, David Cottington, Robert L. Herbert, Dorothée Imbert, Detlef Mertins, Kevin D. Murphy, Irena Zantovska Murrray, Paul Overy, and Bruno Reichlin.

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Architecture and cubism

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This collection of essays commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture examines the relationship of avant-garde practices in early twentieth century painting to architecture. Contributions by Jay Bochner, Yve-Alain Bois, Beatriz Colomina, David Cottington, Robert L. Herbert, Dorothée Imbert, Detlef Mertins, Kevin D. Murphy, Irena Zantovska Murrray, Paul Overy, and Bruno Reichlin. Paperbound edition of the orginal 1997 publication.

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Baku: oil and urbanism

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Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is the original oil city, with oil and urbanism thoroughly intertwined—economically, politically, and physical—in the city’s fabric. Baku saw its first oil boom in the late nineteenth century, driven by the Russian branch of the Nobel family modernizing the oil fields around Baku as local oil barons poured their new wealth into building a cosmopolitan city center. During the Soviet period, Baku became the site of an urban experiment: the shaping of an oil city of socialist man. That project included Neft Dashlari, a city built on trestles in the Caspian Sea and designed to house thousands of workers, schools, shops, gardens, clinics, and cinemas as well as 2,000 oil rigs, pipelines, and collecting stations. Today, as it heads into an uncertain post-oil future, Baku’s planners and business elites regard the legacy of its past as a resource that sustains new aspirations and identities.

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L'idée de la grande ville : l'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890-1937

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"L'idée de la grande ville : L'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890 - 1937" examine pour la première fois l'explosion d'idées neuves en architecture qui a marqué les dernières décennies de l'empire des Habsbourg et les premières années aventureuses des nouvelles républiques d'Europe centrale. Véritable champ de bataille culturel entre différentes traditions et aspirations nationales, religieuses, ethniques et linguistiques, la région n'en était pas moins le foyer d'un profond idéal cosmopolite. S'intéressant à la ville en tant que modèle de société et milieu favorable à l'épanouissement d'une vie culturelle intense, le livre permet de découvrir une histoire remarquable où se conjuguent invention, expérimentation, sophistication et imagination - l'histoire d'architectes qui ont voulu exprimer un sens nouveau de l'urbanité et de la modernité. Ce catalogue, sous la direction d’Eve Blau et de Monika Platzer, rassemble des essais des deux directrices, ainsi que de Charles S. Maier, Moritz Csáky, Renate Banik-Schweitzer, Friedrich Achleitner, Petr Krajci et Rostislav Òvácha, Iain Boyd Whyte, Aleksander Laslo, Ihor Zuk, Jacek Purchla, Ileana Pintilie, András Ferkai, Breda Mihelic et Andrew Herscher. L'avant-propos est de Phyllis Lambert et Kurt W. Forster du Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Deborah Marrow du Getty Research Institute de Los Angeles et Rudolf Wran du ministère autrichien de l'éducation et des Affaires culturelles.

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L'architecture et son image : quatre siècles de représentation architecturale

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Un aperçu des collections du CCA à travers une étude de la représentation architecturale au fil des siècles. Textes de Eve Blau, Robert Bruegmann, Robin Evans, Edward Kaufman, Hélène Lipstadt et William Alexander McClung.

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Shaping the great city: modern architecture in central Europe, 1890-1937

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Shaping the Great City looks at modern architecture and the city in a vast geographical area over nearly fifty years of tumultuous social and political change, bringing to light architectural developments that are only now emerging as subjects for international inquiry. How did modern architecture construct “meaning” in relation to the complex cultural traditions, conflicting political agendas, and historical narratives of modernizing urban society in the cities of central Europe? What role did the cities themselves—as the principal arenas of public culture in the multinational, polyethnic, and pluricultural Hapsburg Empire, then in the successor republics—play in the evolution of modern architectural culture? These questions remain pertinent to the current relationship between cities and the increasingly diverse cultures within them, and to the role of the great city today in the age of globalization.

Titre:
Architecture and its image: four centuries of architectural representation

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A look at architectural representation through the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Texts by Eve Blau, Robert Bruegmann, Robin Evans, Edward Kaufman, Hélène Lipstadt, and William Alexander McClung.