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Author:   Mark Crinson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781784537128

ISBN 10:   1784537128
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 June 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Architectonic of Community 2. World Knowing - Geddes, Otlet, Neurath 3. Well-Ventilated Utopias - Le Corbusier, CIAM, and European Modernism in the 1920s 4. Echo Chamber - The International Style and its Deviations 5. Outwards - Mumford, Regionalism, and Modernism 6. Another World - Post-War CIAM, India and the Marg Circle After the Tower - An Epilogue

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Mark Crinson's wide-ranging analysis proves a significant addition to the history of architectural modernism and its strange association with internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. In unravelling the untold story of these two unlikely partners, he also offers constructive thoughts about their future. --Adrian Forty, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL An insightful inquiry into an unexplored relationship, revealing the ways in which modernist buildings and international institutions helped shape a new mindset. --Michelangelo Sabatino, Illinois Institute of Technology Utilizing an extraordinarily diverse set of archives, Crinson reveals a fascinating web of connections between the ideologists of world unity and architects and designers between the 1900s and 1945. In this extremely timely study, the complexities and contradictions unleashed by Kant's universal ideal confront the implied impossibilities of rebuilding Babel. --Anthony Vidler, Yale University and The Cooper Union

An insightful inquiry into an unexplored relationship, revealing the ways in which modernist buildings and international institutions helped shape a new mindset. --Michelangelo Sabatino, Illinois Institute of Technology

Author Information

Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a board member of ABE Journal (Architecture Beyond Europe) and also vice-president of the European Architectural History Network. His previous books include Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence (2012; winner of the Historians of British Art Prize, 2014) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003; winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize, 2006).

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