Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Introduction. Writing History: Reflections on the Story of Midcentury Modern Architecture 1
7. PART I. MODERNISM AND THE STATE
8. Introduction 8
9. 1. Bucharest: Th e City Transfigured 11
10. 2. The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia 37
11. 3. Czechoslovakia’s Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future 66
12. 4. Sanctioning Modernism and Tradition: Italian Architecture, the Vernacular, and the State 90
13. PART II. MAKING RELIGION MODERN
14. Introduction 109
15. 5. Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Two Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Britain 113
16. 6. “Humanly sublime tensions”: Luigi Moretti’s Chiesa del Concilio (1965–1970) 139
17. 7. Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture 168
18. PART III: MODERNISM AND DOMESTICITY
19. Introduction 182
20. 8. “Technologically” Modern: Th e Prefabricated House and the Wartime Experience of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 186
21. 9. “Modern but not too modern”: House Beautiful and the American Style 219
22. 10. House and Haunted Garden 244
23. Further Reading 269
24. Contributors 274
25. Index 277