Description
Book SynopsisChildren are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults.
Contemporary urban environments the world over represent the various stages of modernism in architecture. This book reads that history through picturebooks and considers the kinds of national identities and histories they construct.
Twelve specialist essays from international scholars address questions such as: Is modern architecture used to construct specific narratives of childhood? Is it taken to support negative' narratives of alienation on the one hand and positive' narratives of happiness on the other? Do images of modern architecture support ideas of community'? Reinforce family values'? If so, what kinds of architecture, community and family? How is modern architecture placed vis-à-vis the promotion of diversity (ethnic, r
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Modernity 1.Building for the future - Children as future citizens in Swedish Picturebooks of the 1930s 2. A Modern Utopia: Architecture, Modernity and Ladybird Books in postwar Britain 3. Reading as Building: Modernist Architecture and Book Space in Picturebooks 4. Representations of modern architecture and urbanism in Colombian children's literature from the mid-20th century Part 2: Domestic Space 5. Domestic Architecture and Environmental Design in Australian Picture Books 6. The house, where everything begins 7. Architecture and Interior Design in Italian Picturebooks: A case study of Bruno Munari 8. Representations of architecture in children’s picture books in Australia, Singapore and China 9. Building Diversity in British and American Children’s Picturebooks (2000-present) Part 3: Urban Space 10. Highly Modern Ideal Homestead 11. Architecture and Magic: Mapping the London of Children’s Fantasy Fiction 12. Ordinary cityscapes and architecture in Jörg Müller’s picturebook oeuvre
