Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe 7
4. Introduction 13
5. I. Discourses on Humanism
6. Re-Humanizing Architecture: The Search for a Common Ground in the Postwar Years, 1950–1970 23
7. CIAM: From “Spirit of the Age” to the “Spiritual Needs” of People 43
8. Was Humanized Socialist Modernism Possible After All? The Promise and Failure of Mass Housing in Hungary 63
9. Mieczysław Porębski: Man and Architecture in the Iconosphere 85
10. II. Building New Societies
11. Continuity or Discontinuity? Narratives on Modern Architecture in East and West Germany during the Cold War 101
12. Building Together: Construction Sites in a Divided Europe During the 1950s 115
13. Building a New Warsaw, Building a Social Warsaw: The First Reconstruction Plans and Their International Review 129
14. Building a New Community – A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia 145
15. “Social Efficiency” and “Humanistic Specificity”: A Double Discourse in Romanian Architecture in the 1960s 173
16. Sociological and Environmental- Psychology Research in Estonia during the 1960s and 1970s: A Critique of Soviet Mass-Housing 185
17. III. The Urban Context
18. Bogdan Bogdanović and the Search for a Meaningful City 199
19. From “New Units of Settlement” to the Old Arbat: The Soviet NĖR Group’s Search for Spaces of Community 211
20. Theories and Practices of Re-Humanizing Postwar Italian Architecture: Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Giancarlo De Carlo 229
21. Urban Planning and Christian Humanism: The Institut Supérieur d’Urbanisme Appliqué in Brussels under Gaston Bardet 243
22. The Monumentality of the Matchbox: On “Slabs” and Politics in the Cold War 255
23. Between City and University: New Monumentality in the Student Center of the Campus of Coimbra 283
24. IV. The Inhabited Nature
25. Socialist Pastoral: The Role of Folklore in Socialist Architectural Culture, 1950s and 1960s 297
26. Dwelling in the Middle Landscape: Rethinking the Architecture of Rural Communities at CIAM 10 311
27. A Desire for Innocence? Community and Recreational Architecture around Lake Balaton 325
28. Unexpected Side Effects: Indirect Benefits of International Mass Tourism on Croatia’s Adriatic Coast 339
29. Appendix
30. Notes on Contributors 363
31. Index 371