Miles Glendinning, Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power — a Global History

In recent years, architectural historians have started to move beyond a negative appreciation for modernist mass housing architecture that has been dismissed because of its lack of architectural ambitions, or has been cast aside as ideologically compromised. This rising interest for modern mass hou...

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Autor principal: Heindryckx, Laurence
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: ABE Journal 2022
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Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:In recent years, architectural historians have started to move beyond a negative appreciation for modernist mass housing architecture that has been dismissed because of its lack of architectural ambitions, or has been cast aside as ideologically compromised. This rising interest for modern mass housing estates and the government policies that shaped them have led to various insightful publications, such as Fourcaut and Dufaux’s Le monde des grands ensembles, Florian Urban’s Tower and Slab, B...