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Author:   Leen Meganck ,  Linda Van Santvoort ,  Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 29.20cm
Weight:   1.814kg
ISBN:  

9789058679185

ISBN 10:   9058679187
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Introduction I. FRANCE 1. Between Progress and Tradition: The Regionalist Debate in France by Jean-Claude Vigato 2. Searching for a New Image: An Idealized Regionalism in Lorraine by Herve Doucet II. BELGIUM 3. German Reconstruction in Belgium during World War I: A Regional Experiment by Johan Van den Mooter 4. Patriotism, Genius Loci, Authentic Buildings and Imitation Farmsteads: Regionalism in Interwar Belgium by Leen Meganck 5. Traditionalist Architecture in Belgium between the Wars: The Obsession with National Culture and the French Influence by Benoit Mihail 6. Municipal Imagery and Regionalist Architecture in the Aftermath of the First World War: Branches of the National Bank of Belgium in Flanders by Evert Vandeweghe 7. Farmstead, Tribe, Soil and National Character: Clemens Victor Trefois, a Self-Made Farmhouse Expert from Flanders by Bjorn Rzoska 8. Regionalism and a European View?: Gerard Walschap on the ""Heimatroman"" by Lut Missinne III. GERMANY 9. Standardization and the Landscape: Traditionalism and the Planning of Housing Estates in Germany between the Two World Wars by Kai Krauskopf IV. ENGLAND 10. Oliver Hill: A Window on Regionalism in Britain during the Interwar Period by Vanessa Vanden Berghe V. ITALY 11. Toward a Regionalist Modernism: Italian Architecture and the Vernacular by Michelangelo Sabatino Abbreviations Bibliography Index Authors"

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Lost and Found: Regional Modernism in Europe With 'Regionalism and Modernity', we get a more full and European perspective that suggests that in Europe maturation was dominant, but also more complex. European regionalism, assert the editors, was a “strategy for ensuring continuity within a modernizing society which compensates for the increasing loss of landscape and tradition.” [...] So considered altogether, 'Regionalism and Modernity' is a valuable contribution to the discourse that benefits a US audience by its ability to situate regionalism, modernism, historicism, and eclecticism within a social and political framework, while also demonstrating architectureʼs cultural and artistic relevance. Rather than simply a debate about style (regionalism, modernism, or neo-Tuscan?) as has been so often the case in the US, the European context demonstrates a closer and deeper relationship between culture, meaning and architecture. Vincent B. Canizaro, University of Texas San Antonio

Author Information

Leen Meganck is Senior Researcher on Architectural History at the Government of Flanders Onroerend Erfgoed (Flanders Heritgae). Linda Van Santvoort is Professor of Architectural History and Heritage at Ghent University. Jan De Maeyer is Professor at KU Leuven and director of KADOC-KU Leuven, Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society.

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