The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968

ISBN-13: 9780367595425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 310 str.

Ana Miljacki

Opis

The Optimum Imperative examines the multiple ways that architecture was entangled within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in Czechoslovakia.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Optimizing Optimism

Part I: Projection

Historical Introduction 1938-1948: The Socialist Prospective 1. Socialism and Lifestyle: The Intellectual Road to the Optimum Dwelling 2. Reasonable Consumption: The Necessism Group and the Rationalizing of Needs

Part II: Production Historical Introduction 1948-1958: Drawing the Curtain 3. Architecture for All: Nationalization of Czechoslovakia’s Architecture 4. All for Architecture: Determinants of Architecture and of Architectural Authors 5. One Building for All: The Czechoslovak Brussels Pavilion

Part III: Experimentation Historical Introduction 1958-1968: Reform from Within 6. An Avant-Garde for All: "Without Legends and Myths" 7. Not an Avant-Garde: The Emergence of SIAL from Stavoprojekt Liberec 8. Experiments in Free Time and Play: Liberec, circa 1966

Postscript: Turning "Máj" Into "My"  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ana Miljački is Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where she teaches history, theory, and design. She holds a PhD (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, USA, and her work focuses on the relationship between politics and the products and circumstances of architectural labor.