Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
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Zarecor, Kimberly. Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Univ. of Pittsburgh Press
Cl. 2011
Book ID: 88611
The first comprehensive history of architectural practice and the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, Zarecor opens a rare window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.
480 pp., 292 b&w illus.
