Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility

A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84107-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architecture

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.

Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the twentieth century— and ending with the Nuremberg trials, the book highlights the part played by individual agency, social reform and architecture in moulding a working everyday definition of what it meant to be international during this time. By viewing internationalism through the lens of the individual and the body, both as initiator and subject, it is repositioned as an integral part of everyday life, rather than simply understood to be concerned with geopolitical relations between nations and their institutions.

The book furthers a research methodology that is multidisciplinary and transnational. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and international history.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Naina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Peace Movements and an International Sensibility

Chapter 3 – Family Reform and Puericulture: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ellen Key

Chapter 4 – Workers’ Question and Fatigue: Gregor Paulsson and Lillian Gilbreth

Chapter 5 – Body Reform and Embodying Strength: Jørgen Peter Müller and Isadora Duncan

Chapter 6 – Educational Reform and Childcare: Friedrich Froebel and Martin A. Couney

Chapter 7 – International Law and a Shared Language: Dan Kiley and Raphael Lemkin

Chapter 8 – Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Naina Gupta has a PhD from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture in London, where she has taught. In 2010, she was part of the first cohort to contribute to the collaborative research project between OMA in the Netherlands and Strelka in Russia. She has practised as an architect for more than a decade and taught in the Aarhus School of Architecture. She currently lives and teaches in the UK. She teaches design, and history and theory studies in architecture. Her more recent work, where she is studying the swimming pool as a space of transnational embodied relationships focusing on India, the UK and the USA, continues themes and methods that were broached in this book.