Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation - from domestic space to urban visions - this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, The Housing Project not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content). Contributors: Tamara Bjazic Klarin (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Gaia Caramellino (Politecnico di Milano), John Crosse (Independent Scholar), Stephanie Dadour (ENSA Grenoble, MHAevt/EA 7445, ACS/UMR AUSser), Rika Devos (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BATir Department), Fredie Flore (KU Leuven), Johanna Hartmann (Institute for Art History-Film Studies-Art Education, University of Bremen), Erin McKellar (Royal Holloway, University of London), Laetitia Overney (ENSA Paris-Belleville, IPRAUS/UMR AUSser 3329), Jose Parra (University of Alicante), Mathilde Simonsen (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Eva Storgaard (University of Antwerp), Ludovica Vacirca (Independent Scholar)
About the AuthorGaia Caramellino is assistant professor of architectural history at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. She is a member of the Board of the PhD in "Architecture. History and Project", Politecnico di Torino. Stephanie Dadour is associate professor of history and theory of architecture at the Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Grenoble. She is a member of Laboratoire des Metiers de l'Histoire de l'Architecture (ENSAG) and of Laboratoire Architecture, Culture et Societe (ENSA Paris-Malaquais UMR AUSser).
ReviewsLes dix contributions rassemblees dans l'ouvrage s'attachent a eclairer, non le XXe siecle, mais une periode particulierement cruciale de l'histoire du logement (entre 1920 et 1960), de la crise aigue qui caracterise l'entre-deux-guerres a la production de masse des annees de croissance en passant par les problematiques specifiques de la reconstruction. Elles montrent de maniere particulierement explicite la maniere dont l'exposition d'architecture, souvent paree de vertus didactiques comme le rappelle Eva Storgaard, va s'imposer comme un efficace outil de promotion des politiques et des actions publiques, mais aussi de fixation et de circulation des modeles et des typologies.
Eleonore Marantz, Critique d'art, http://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/86659
Book InformationISBN 9789462701823
Author Gaia CaramellinoFormat Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press
Weight(grams) 740g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 170mm * 16mm
