Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity - Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

"Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity" is the first comprehensive history of architectural practice and the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a rare window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.

About the author

Kimberly Elman Zarecor is assistant professor of architecture at Iowa State University.

Summary

Provides the first comprehensive history of architectural practice and the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, this opens a rare window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Elman Zarecor
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2011
• EAN: 9780822944041
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4404-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 265 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1175 g
• Series: Pitt Series in Russian and Eas; Russian and East European Stud; Pitt Series in Russian and Eas
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History