TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kohlrausch, Martin
AB  - "The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe.    The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified.  Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today."
DO  - 10.11116/9789461662545
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004223
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100535190
KW  - modernism
KW  - architecture
KW  - urbanism
KW  - modernist architects
KW  - East Central Europe
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/17a7b5cc-ec1a-4451-bc22-fa945832c5a3/9789461662545.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25863
PB  - Leuven University Press
PP  - Leuven
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9789462701724
SN  - 9789461662781
TI  - Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950
ER  - 
