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Book SynopsisWith new research on building programs in political, religious, and domestic settings in the United States and Europe, this collection of essays offers a fresh look at postwar modernism and the role that architecture played in constructing modern identiti
Table of ContentsForeword
Frederick Steiner
Preface
Vladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Writing History: Reflections on the Story of Midcentury Modern Architecture
Dennis P. Doordan
Part I. Modernism and the State
Introduction
Vladimir Kulić
1. Bucharest: The City Transfigured
Juliana Maxim
2. The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia
Vladimir Kulić
3. Czechoslovakia's Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future
Kimberly Elman Zarecor
4. Sanctioning Modernism and Tradition: Italian Architecture, the Vernacular, and the State
Michelangelo Sabatino
Part II. Making Religion Modern
Introduction
Timothy Parker
5. Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Two Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Britain
Robert Proctor
6. "Humanly sublime tensions": Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio (1965–1970)
Timothy Parker
7. Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture
Richard Kieckhefer
Part III: Modernism and Domesticity
Introduction
Monica Penick
8. "Technologically" Modern: The Prefabricated House and the Wartime Experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Hyun-Tae Jung
9. "Modern but not too modern": House Beautiful and the American Style
Monica Penick
10. House and Haunted Garden
Sandy Isenstadt
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