Modernist Reinventions of the Rural Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780367420086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2030 / 376 str.

Axel Fisher; Simon Bell; Vittoria Capresi

Opis

Modernist Reinventions of the Rural Landscape explores rural topographies produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonisation schemes planned and carried out in the 20th Century.

Spis treści

Foreword, Ana Tostoes. Introduction. Atlas of Case Studies. Part 1: The Rise and Fall of Modernism in the Rural Landscape 1. The emergence of Modernism and modernisation as a route to rural revitalisation 2. Designing the total landscape 3. National epics, international networks of agrarianism 4. Selling the vision 5. Setting down roots, building a new community Part 2: Reorganising the Land, Building Societies 6. Taming nature - the engineering of reclamation and the introduction of infrastructure 7. Between dispersion and concentration 8. The triumph of the combine harvester 9. New lands and new lives, a new story Part 3: Settlement and Architecture 10. Not so far, not so different 11. "And there arose a new world"... building Modernist settlements 12. New building types and architectural expressions 13. "We had so much space!" the modernisation of housing Part 4: Future Challenges and the Uses of the Past 14. Modernist ruins, legacies and illusions – how does society view them? 15. The uses of the past Afterword, Dirk Gotzmann. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Axel Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

 

Simon Bell is Chair Professor at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia.

 

Vittoria Capresi　is senior researcher at the　Chair of International Urbanism and Design - Habitat Unit at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

 

Maria Helena Maia is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director at Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal.

 

Cristina Pallini is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.