Manufacturing a socialist modernity
Subtitle: housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
By: Kimberly Elman Zarecor
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780822944041
Subjects: Architecture and state; Domestic Architecture; Housing; Social change; Design and construction; Socialism; Social conditions; Modern movement (Architecture); Dwellings; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Writing a postwar history; title: Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity; title: Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice; title: National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery; title: A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha; title: The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák; title: Epilogue.