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The Housing Project: Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th-Century Exhibitions

Author/EditorCaramellino, Gaia (Author)
Dadour, Stephanie (Author)
ISBN: 9789462701823
Pub Date04/03/2020
BindingPaperback
Pages328
Dimensions (mm)230(h) * 170(w) * 16(d)
The role and impact of housing exhibitions in architectural culture
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Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation - from domestic space to urban visions - this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and
explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, The Housing Project not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).

Contributors: Tamara Bjazic Klarin (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Gaia Caramellino (Politecnico di Milano), John Crosse (Independent Scholar), Stephanie Dadour (ENSA Grenoble, MHAevt/EA 7445, ACS/UMR AUSser), Rika Devos (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BATir Department), Fredie Flore (KU Leuven), Johanna Hartmann (Institute for Art History-Film Studies-Art Education, University of Bremen), Erin McKellar (Royal Holloway, University of London), Laetitia Overney (ENSA Paris-Belleville, IPRAUS/UMR AUSser 3329), Jose Parra (University of Alicante), Mathilde Simonsen (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Eva Storgaard (University of Antwerp), Ludovica Vacirca (Independent Scholar)

Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation - from domestic space to urban visions - this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and
explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, The Housing Project not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).

Contributors: Tamara Bjazic Klarin (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Gaia Caramellino (Politecnico di Milano), John Crosse (Independent Scholar), Stephanie Dadour (ENSA Grenoble, MHAevt/EA 7445, ACS/UMR AUSser), Rika Devos (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BATir Department), Fredie Flore (KU Leuven), Johanna Hartmann (Institute for Art History-Film Studies-Art Education, University of Bremen), Erin McKellar (Royal Holloway, University of London), Laetitia Overney (ENSA Paris-Belleville, IPRAUS/UMR AUSser 3329), Jose Parra (University of Alicante), Mathilde Simonsen (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Eva Storgaard (University of Antwerp), Ludovica Vacirca (Independent Scholar)

Gaia Caramellino is assistant professor of architectural history at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. She is a member of the Board of the PhD in "Architecture. History and Project", Politecnico di Torino. Stephanie Dadour is associate professor of history and theory of architecture at the Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Grenoble. She is a member of Laboratoire des Metiers de l'Histoire de l'Architecture (ENSAG) and of Laboratoire Architecture, Culture et Societe (ENSA Paris-Malaquais UMR AUSser).

Acknowledgments Introduction: Exhibiting Housing GAIA CARAMELLINO & STEPHANIE DADOUR PART 1 TRANSLATING MODELS AND CONCEPTS THROUGH HOUSING EXHIBITIONS Staged Interiors as Urban Spectacle: The Exhibitions New Homes (1920) and Form and Colour, an Exhibition of Spatial Art (1924), Oslo, Norway MATHILDE S. DAHL Curating the Collective House: The Popularization of a new Housing Model in 1930s Sweden EVA STORGAARD Living, Working, Playing: Ernoe Goldfinger's Planning Exhibitions, 1943-46 ERIN MCKELLAR Between Tradition and Modernity: Making Housing Women's business. The Flat-Referendum, Salon des Arts Menagers, Paris, 1959 STEPHANIE DADOUR & LAETITIA OVERNEY Schooling the Eye in Modern Home Comforts: Spatial Concepts in the neues wohnen (new dwelling) Exhibition of 1949 JOHANNA HARTMANN PART 2 HOUSING EXHIBITIONS AS SITES OF MEDIATION Exhibition as Cultural Struggle: Domestic Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Region (1949), between the Question of Regionalism and the International Style JOSE PARRA-MARTINEZ & JOHN CROSSE Multiple Modernisms: Negotiating Housing Models and Discourses during the New Deal at MoMA, 1932-1944 GAIA CARAMELLINO The American House behind the Iron Curtain: Circulating Built in USA in the Eastern bloc LUDOVICA VACIRCA Housing Exhibitions in Croatia in the 1930s and 1950s - from the Subversive Critical Platform to the Vehicle of the New Ideology TAMARA BJAZIC KLARIN Synthesizing "the problem of the home": The Buildings and Dwellings Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair of 1958 FREDIE FLORE & RIKA DEVOS Illustration credits Index (People and Places) About the authors

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