Building Children's Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

ISBN-13: 9780367675486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

Schmiedeknecht, Torsten

Opis

The kinds of architectural worlds children are exposed to in picture books during their formative years may influence how they regard such architecture as adults.

This book reveals what stories are told about modern architecture and shows how those stories affect future attitudes towards and expectations of the built environment.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Modernity  1.Building for the future　- Children as future citizens in Swedish Picturebooks of the 1930s　 2. A Modern Utopia: Architecture, Modernity and Ladybird Books in postwar Britain  3. Reading as Building: Modernist Architecture and Book Space in Picturebooks  4. Representations of modern architecture and urbanism in Colombian children's literature from the mid-20th century  Part 2: Domestic Space  5. Domestic Architecture and Environmental Design in Australian Picture Books  6. The house, where everything begins  7. Architecture and Interior Design in Italian Picturebooks: A case study of Bruno Munari  8. Representations of architecture in children’s picture books in Australia, Singapore and China　 9. Building Diversity in British and American Children’s Picturebooks (2000-present)  Part 3: Urban Space  10. Highly Modern Ideal Homestead  11. Architecture and Magic: Mapping the London of Children’s Fantasy Fiction  12. Ordinary cityscapes and architecture in Jörg Müller’s picturebook oeuvre