Sanctioning modernism [electronic resource] : architecture and the making of postwar identities / edited by Vladimir Kulic, Timothy Parker, and Monica Penick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Writing history: reflections on the story of midcentury modern architecture / Dennis P. Doordan -- Modernism and the state. Introduction / Vladimir Kulić -- Bucharest: the city transfigured / Juliana Maxim -- The scope of socialist modernism: architecture and state representation in postwar Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kulić -- Czechoslovakia's model housing developments: modern architecture for the socialist future / Kimberly Elman Zarecor -- Sanctioning modernism and tradition: Italian architecture, the vernacular, and the state / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Making religion modern. Introduction / Timothy Parker -- Uncertainty and the modern church: two Roman Catholic cathedrals in Britain / Robert Proctor -- "Humanly sublime tensions": Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio (1965/1970) / Timothy Parker -- Modernism and the concept of reform: liturgy and liturgical architecture / Richard Kieckhefer -- Modernism and domesticity. Introduction / Monica Penick -- "Technologically" modern: the prefabricated house and the wartime experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / Hyun-Tae Jung -- "Modern but not too modern": House beautiful and the American style / Monica Penick -- House and haunted garden / Sandy Isenstadt.

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