Architecture in uniform
Subtitle: designing and building for the Second World War
By: Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture; Hazan; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montréal; Paris; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9782754105309; 9780920785928
Subjects: Modern Architecture; World War, 1939-1945; Architecture and war; Themes, motives; Art and the war; History
Other titles: Designing and building for the Second World War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture: the test of war; title: Architects and cities go off to war; title: Total mobilisation, from the factory to the kitchen; title: Producing production and workers' housing; title: The menace from the air; title: Camouflage, or The temptation of the invisible; title: Architects and bombs, from bunkers to napalm; title: Mobility and prefabrication; title: Macro and micro or the issue of scale; title: On the information front; title: Alternative futures: occupation and reconstruction; title: Recycling, recalling, forgetting.