Growing up Modern (eBook)

Childhoods in Iconic Homes

Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster (Autoren)

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2021
328 Seiten
Birkhäuser (Verlag)
978-3-0356-2031-3 (ISBN)

Infos

What was it like to grow up in a Modernist residence? Did these radical environments shape the way that children looked at architecture later in life? The oral history in this book paint a uniquely intimate portrait of Modernism.
The authors conducted interviews with people, who spent their childhood in radical Modernist domestic spaces, uncovering both serene and poignant memories. The recollections range from the ambivalence of philosopher Ernst Tugendhat, now 90 years old, who lived in the famous Mies van der Rohe house in Brno (1930) to the fond reminiscing of the youngest daughter of the Schminke family, who still dreams of her Scharoun-designed ship-like villa in Löbau (1933). The book offers a unique, private and often refreshing perspective on these icons of the avant-garde.

Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster,

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 99 b/w and 241 col. ill.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 20th-century icons • Hans Scharoun • House Schminke • Ikonen der Moderne • Modernity • Oral History • Schminke house • Unité d'Habitation • Villa Tugendhat • Weissenhof estate • Weissenhofsiedlung
• ISBN-10: 3-0356-2031-8 / 3035620318
• ISBN-13: 978-3-0356-2031-3 / 9783035620313