Nortopia: Nordic Modern Architecture and Postwar Germany

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Spliid Hogsbro, Caroline and Antje Wischmann. Nortopia: Nordic Modern Architecture and Postwar Germany

Pap. Jovis. 2010

Book ID: 83963

The fiftieth anniversary of Interbau 1957 presented a timely opportunity to reappraise the Hansaviertel in Berlin and the entire New Building movement. In this context, Nordic conceptions of architecture and town planning seemed particularly worthy of critical reflection. The "people's home" (folkhem), as well as various national strands of modernization, architectural preferences and even geopolitical considerations play a role in the formation of the Nordic model. The contributors to this volume take the example of the Hansaviertel as an opportunity to investigate Nordic-German transfer in modernism-aesthetically, socioculturally and programmatically.

176 pp., duotone illus.