Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.
Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements - the turn of the twentieth century – and ending with the Nuremberg trials, the book highlights the part played by individual agency, social reform and architecture in moulding a working everyday-definition of what it meant to be international during this time. By viewing internationalism through the lens of the individual and the body, both as initiator and subject, it is repositioned as an integral part of the everyday life, rather than simply understood to be concerned with geopolitical relations between nations and their institutions.
The book furthers a research methodology that is multidisciplinary and transnational, it will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and international history.
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Peace Movements and an International Sensibility
Chapter 3 Family Reform and Puericulture: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
Ellen Key
Chapter 4 Workers Question and Fatigue: Gregor Paulsson and Lillian
Gilbreth
Chapter 5 Body Reform and Embodying Strength: Jørgen Peter Müller and
Isadora Duncan
Chapter 6 Educational Reform and Childcare: Friedrich Froebel and Martin A.
Couney
Chapter 7 International Law and a Shared Language: Dan Kiley and Raphael
Lemkin
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Dr Naina Gupta has a PhD from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture in London, where she has taught. In 2010, she was part of the first cohort to contribute to the collaborative research project between OMA in the Netherlands and Strelka in Russia. She has practised as an architect for more than a decade and taught in the Aarhus School of Architecture. She currently lives and teaches in the UK. She teaches design, and history and theory studies in architecture. Her more recent work, where she is studying the swimming pool as a space of transnational embodied relationships focusing on India, the UK and the USA, continues themes and methods that were broached in this book.
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