{"product_id":"modernism-and-the-professional-architecture-journal-9781138945227","title":"Modernism and the Professional Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar reconstruction in Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the history of postwar reconstruction has been increasingly well covered for most European countries, research investigating postwar architectural magazines and journals across Europe  their role in the discourse and production of the built environment and particularly their inter-relationship and differing conceptions of postwar architecture  is relatively undeveloped. \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Professional Architecture Journal \u003c\/i\u003esounds out this territory in a new collection of essays concerning the second phase of the reception and assimilation of modernism in architecture, as it was represented in professional architecture journals during the period of postwar reconstruction (19451968).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is surely the first systematic survey of architectural journals produced across Europe in that vital 20-year period following the war when modernism was in vexed transit from embattled cause to contested orthodoxy. Scholarly country-by-country coverage reveals how the medium of the professional journal functioned as both a mirror and a torch, reflecting while also guiding the inextricable narratives of practice and discourse. Journalism may be but ‘the first rough draft of history’, yet this fascinating study shows what a rich and compelling draft it can be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Allan\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArchitect and writer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"During the years between 1945 and 1968 professional journals were testing grounds for institutional debates where modernist discourse has been produced and disseminated. Grounded in extensive new research, the essays in this volume by eleven international architectural scholars propose a stimulating interpretation of a medium whose role has been hitherto underestimated. Examining the interferences between journals, design practice and the tasks of reconstruction, the book shows us how professional architecture journals, their owners, editors, contributors and designers shaped architectural culture in the postwar decades.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÁkos Moravánszky\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus, ETH Zurich, Switzerland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Professional Architecture Journal. Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham takes a different approach from [other] publications [on architecture journals]. Through the journals, the book provides an interesting insight into the history of European post-war architecture.\" Extract from https:\/\/www.archined.nl\/2020\/04\/in-welke-stijl-te-bouwen-het-architectuurdebat-in-europese-tijdschriften\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOtakar Máčel, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchitecture historian, TU Delft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is surely the first systematic survey of architectural journals produced across Europe in that vital 20-year period following the war when modernism was in vexed transit from embattled cause to contested orthodoxy. Scholarly country-by-country coverage reveals how the medium of the professional journal functioned as both a mirror and a torch, reflecting while also guiding the inextricable narratives of practice and discourse. Journalism may be but ‘the first rough draft of history’, yet this fascinating study shows what a rich and compelling draft it can be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Allan\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArchitect and writer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"During the years between 1945 and 1968 professional journals were testing grounds for institutional debates where modernist discourse has been produced and disseminated. Grounded in extensive new research, the essays in this volume by eleven international architectural scholars propose a stimulating interpretation of a medium whose role has been hitherto underestimated. Examining the interferences between journals, design practice and the tasks of reconstruction, the book shows us how professional architecture journals, their owners, editors, contributors and designers shaped architectural culture in the postwar decades.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÁkos Moravánszky\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus, ETH Zurich, Switzerland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Professional Architecture Journal. Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham takes a different approach from [other] publications [on architecture journals]. Through the journals, the book provides an interesting insight into the history of European post-war architecture.\" Extract from https:\/\/www.archined.nl\/2020\/04\/in-welke-stijl-te-bouwen-het-architectuurdebat-in-europese-tijdschriften\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOtakar Máčel, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchitecture historian, TU Delft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book is based on solid methodological foundations to analyse this genre of architectural journal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucía C. Pérez-Moreno\u003c\/strong\u003e (2020): \u003ci\u003eBook\u003c\/i\u003e, The Journal of Architecture, DOI: 10.1080\/13602365.2020.1824387\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By exploring differences and commonalities between specific architectural journals, the contributions in this volume reveal how post-war architecture, its theories, debates and products, and in particular its response to modernism, were perceived and disseminated across Europe. … through its geographical breadth the volume does offer us a greater understanding of the scope, ambition and content of the architectural journal in the period when modernism was a central issue.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Howard, Ben Tosland, Ian Campbell and Matthew James Wells\u003c\/strong\u003e., 2020. Reviews: Spring 2020. Architectural Histories, 8(1), p.7. DOI: http:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/ah.508\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book offers a wealth of empirical research into the cultures and production of architectural journals, as well as details of the publishing landscapes of specific countries. This type of research can be hindered by a lack of archival material, the published magazine often the only consistently surviving source. However, the scholars in this volume have traced the networks of people editing and contributing to the journals to offer a helpful resource to fellow researchers.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, Architectural History , Volume 63 , 2020 , pp. 339 - 341. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/arh.2020.23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eTorsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Swiss Journals 1940–1965: mirroring the difficult departure into modernity \u003cem\u003eChristoph Allenspach\u003c\/em\u003e 2. Postwar Editorial Conversations in Germany: \u003cem\u003eBaumeister\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBaukunst und Werkform\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eTorsten Schmiedeknecht \u003c\/i\u003e3. The Free Bird and Its Cages: Dutch architectural journals in the first decade after the Second World War \u003cem\u003eHerman van Bergeijk\u003c\/em\u003e 4. Nation Building: Sweden's modernisation and the autonomy of the profession \u003cem\u003eClaes Caldenby \u003c\/em\u003e5. Visual Sensibility and the Search for Form: the \u003cem\u003eArchitectural Review\u003c\/em\u003e in postwar Britain \u003cem\u003eAndrew Higgott\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Axe or Mirror? Architectural journals in postwar Hungary \u003cem\u003eAndrás Ferkai\u003c\/em\u003e 7. Periodicals and the Return to Modernity after the Spanish Civil War: \u003cem\u003eArquitectura\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHogar y Architectura\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNueva Forma\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAna Esteban Maluenda\u003c\/em\u003e 8. The Greek Vision of Postwar Modernity\u003cem\u003e Panayotis Tournikiotis\u003c\/em\u003e 9. \u003cem\u003eArchitecture d'aujord'hui\u003c\/em\u003e, the André Bloc years \u003cem\u003eNicholas Bullock \u003c\/em\u003e10. Against the Contingencies of Italian Society: issues of historical continuity and doscontinuity in Italy's postwar architectural periodicals \u003cem\u003ePaolo Scrivano \u003c\/em\u003e11. 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