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Regionalism and Modernity: Architecture in Western Europe 1914-1940

Regionalism and Modernity: Architecture in Western Europe 1914-1940

Meganck, Leen
Van Santvoort, Linda
de Maeyer, Jan

Hardcover

Series: KADOC Artes

General European HistoryArchitecture History

ISBN10: 9058679187
ISBN13: 9789058679185
Publisher: Leuven Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 3.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.90 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and fitness of purpose, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected and even labeled backward. The origins of this drastic change of perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a positive form gradually turned into a closed form of regionalism, a folding back on one's own region as a defense mechanism in an economically and politically turbulent decade.In this book, internationally-renowned researchers investigate the complex and shifting relation between regionalism and modernity in the architecture of Western Europe between the two World Wars, with a focus on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain. They demonstrate that regionalism cannot be separated from modernity, but is in fact a way of dealing with modernity and its contradictions. Applied to architecture, regionalism is a means to moderate modernism, to embed the design in its local surroundings. It is seen as a result of the search for identity in a modernizing and globalizing world where tensions arise between diversity and superiority and among science, aesthetics, and ideology. The employment of regional forms and concepts is then used as an adaptation strategy, a way to facilitate modernity. Rather than rejecting regionalism as an anti-modern phenomenon, this book's contributors show that we should interpret regionalism as a striving for continuity within modernity.Contributors: Hervé Doucet, University of Strasbourg; Kai Krauskopf, Technische Universitat Dresden; Leen Meganck, Flanders Heritage Agency; Benoit Mihail, Police Museum Brussels; Lut Missinne, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster; Bjorn Rzoska, Groen; Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston; Vanessa Vanden Berghe, University of East London; Johan Van den Mooter, Kempens Landschap; Evert Vandeweghe, Ghent University; Jean-Claude Vigato, Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nancy

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