Designing Transformation : Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism /: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Designing Transformation : Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism /: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Designing Transformation : Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism
- Further Information:
- Note: Elana Shapira.
- Editors:
- Shapira, Elana
- Contents:
- AcknowledgementsList of FiguresContributorsIntroduction: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism, Elana Shapira (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)Part I: Designing Their Homes in Central Europe 1. The 'Bauhaus Shtetl': Opposing Conservatism in New Leopold Town in Budapest, Rudolf Klein (Óbuda University, Hungary)2. Shaping Modern Bratislava: The Role of Architect Friedrich Weinwurm and his Jewish Clients in Designing the Slovak Capital, Henrieta Moravciková (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)3. Adolf Sommerfeld Co-Producing Modern Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin, Celina Kress (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)4. Entangled Histories: The Contribution of Jewish Architects to Modernism in Croatia, Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb, Croatia)5. An International Style Synagogue in Brno: Otto Eisler's Synagogue Agudas Achim (1936), Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichová (University of Bamberg, Germany)6. Identity and Gender as Obstacles? A Comparison of Two Biographies of Jewish Architects from Krakow, Kamila Twardowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)Part II: Outsiders/Insiders – Cultural Authorship and Strategies of Inclusion 7. Lajos Kozma, 'Judapest, ' and Central European Modernism, Juliet Kinchin (Independent Design Historian, Scotland)8. Refuge and Respite: Oskar Wlach, Max Eisler, and the Culture of the Modern Jewish Interior, Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin, USA)9. The Art and Design of AnnaAcknowledgementsList of FiguresContributorsIntroduction: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism, Elana Shapira (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)Part I: Designing Their Homes in Central Europe 1. The 'Bauhaus Shtetl': Opposing Conservatism in New Leopold Town in Budapest, Rudolf Klein (Óbuda University, Hungary)2. Shaping Modern Bratislava: The Role of Architect Friedrich Weinwurm and his Jewish Clients in Designing the Slovak Capital, Henrieta Moravciková (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)3. Adolf Sommerfeld Co-Producing Modern Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin, Celina Kress (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)4. Entangled Histories: The Contribution of Jewish Architects to Modernism in Croatia, Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb, Croatia)5. An International Style Synagogue in Brno: Otto Eisler's Synagogue Agudas Achim (1936), Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichová (University of Bamberg, Germany)6. Identity and Gender as Obstacles? A Comparison of Two Biographies of Jewish Architects from Krakow, Kamila Twardowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)Part II: Outsiders/Insiders – Cultural Authorship and Strategies of Inclusion 7. Lajos Kozma, 'Judapest, ' and Central European Modernism, Juliet Kinchin (Independent Design Historian, Scotland)8. Refuge and Respite: Oskar Wlach, Max Eisler, and the Culture of the Modern Jewish Interior, Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin, USA)9. The Art and Design of Anna Lesznai: Adaptation and Transformation, Rebecca Houze (Northern Illinois University, USA) 10. The Art of Survival: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Children's Art at the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Megan Brandow-Faller (City University of New York, Kingsborough, USA)Part III: Survival Through Design - Projecting Transformative Designs onto the Future11. Flights of Fancy: Willy de Majo and the Youthful Foundations of a Lifelong Design Practice, Lesley Whitworth (University of Brighton, UK)12. Sustaining Independence: Marie Frommer's Networks and Architectural Practices in Berlin and in New York, Tanja Poppelreuter (University of Salford, UK)13. 'Memory's instruments and its very medium': the Archival Practices of Émigré Designers, Sue Breakell (University of Brighton, UK)14. Facing the Sun: German-Speaking Émigrés and the Roots of Israeli Climatic Building Design, Or Aleksandrowicz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa)BibliographyIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Subjects:
- European history
Jewish studies
History -- Jewish
Design -- History & Criticism
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350172296
1350172294 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350172272
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