Rebuilding Babel

Modern Architecture and Internationalism

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, History
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Author: Mark Crinson ISBN: 9781786722034
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: June 30, 2017
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Mark Crinson
ISBN: 9781786722034
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: June 30, 2017
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel – built, so the story goes, by people united by one language – were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationalist trends in the 1920s, and again in the immediate post-war years, he underlines how such architecture utilised the themes of a cooperative community of builders and a common language of forms.

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Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel – built, so the story goes, by people united by one language – were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationalist trends in the 1920s, and again in the immediate post-war years, he underlines how such architecture utilised the themes of a cooperative community of builders and a common language of forms.

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