Ana Miljacki

The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Optimum Imperative examines the multiple ways that architecture was entangled within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in Czechoslovakia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315460123
• Artikelnr.: 47902988

Autorenporträt

Ana Miljacki is Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where she teaches history, theory, and design. She holds a PhD (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, USA, and her work focuses on the relationship between politics and the products and circumstances of architectural labor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Optimizing Optimism
Part I: Projection
Historical Introduction 1938-1948: The Socialist Prospective 1. Socialism
and Lifestyle: The Intellectual Road to the Optimum Dwelling 2. Reasonable
Consumption: The Necessism Group and the Rationalizing of Needs
Part II: Production Historical Introduction 1948-1958: Drawing the Curtain
3. Architecture for All: Nationalization of Czechoslovakia's Architecture
4. All for Architecture: Determinants of Architecture and of Architectural
Authors 5. One Building for All: The Czechoslovak Brussels Pavilion
Part III: Experimentation Historical Introduction 1958-1968: Reform from
Within 6. An Avant-Garde for All: "Without Legends and Myths" 7. Not an
Avant-Garde: The Emergence of SIAL from Stavoprojekt Liberec 8. Experiments
in Free Time and Play: Liberec, circa 1966
Postscript: Turning "Máj" Into "My" Bibliography Index