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Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices. Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the twentieth century— and ending with the Nuremberg trials, the book highlights the part played by individual agency, social reform and architecture in moulding a working everyday definition of what it meant to be international during this time. By viewing internationalism through the lens of the individual and the body, both as initiator and subject, it is repositioned as an integral part of everyday life, rather than simply understood to be concerned with geopolitical relations between nations and their institutions. The book furthers a research methodology that is multidisciplinary and transnational. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and international history.

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“In this fresh and original book, Naina Gupta argues that architectural modernism was shaped by an ‘international sensibility’ tied to transnational reform networks, such as workers' rights, kindergarten and peace movements. Her hopeful account of how progressivism definitively influenced the modern project provides rich food for thought for scholars and architects today.” Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK. “I believe Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation will be a valuable addition to architectural history looking more closely at the politics that constructed specific spatial typologies around a gendered and racial body. It achieves this using a methodology that is multidisciplinary and argues for a transnational historiography. Tatjana Crossley, Wentworth Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design, Boston, MA.

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Dr Naina Gupta has a PhD from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture in London, where she has taught. In 2010, she was part of the first cohort to contribute to the collaborative research project between OMA in the Netherlands and Strelka in Russia. She has practised as an architect for more than a decade and taught in the Aarhus School of Architecture. She currently lives and teaches in the UK. She teaches design, and history and theory studies in architecture. Her more recent work, where she is studying the swimming pool as a space of transnational embodied relationships focusing on India, the UK and the USA, continues themes and methods that were broached in this book.

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