Manufacturing a socialist modernity : housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zarecor, Kimberly Elman
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011]
Series:	Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:	Modern movement (Architecture) > Czechoslovakia. Social change > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Socialism > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Housing > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Dwellings > Czechoslovakia > Design and construction > History > 20th century. Architecture and state > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Architecture, Domestic > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century. Czechoslovakia > Social conditions > 1945-1992. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Writing a postwar history
Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity
Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice
National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery
A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha
The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák
Epilogue.