How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.
Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building, and housing shortages within the context of transnational and regional research.
The book’s contributions explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication’s role in the history of global architecture, notably in the USSR and Italy. The chapters' topics encompass colonial expansion, class, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialised design. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.
Contributors: Mia Åkerfelt (Åbo Akademi University), Yael Allweil (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Inbal Ben Asher-Gitler (Sapir Academic College / Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Angelo Bertolazzi (University of Padua), Tamara Bjažić Klarin (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Tzafrir Fainholtz (Technion Israel Institute of Technology / Åbo Akademi University), Alberto Franchini (Technical University of Munich), Ilaria Giannetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Regine Hess (TU Munich), Silke Langenberg (ETH Zurich), Daphna Levine (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Stefania Mornati (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Uta Pottgiesser (TU Delft), Maryia Rusak (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Liat Savin Ben Shoshan (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Maria Tassopoulou (Technical University of Athens), Anna Wilczyńska (Estonian University of Life Sciences/ Warsaw University of Life Sciences).
Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Edited by:
Regine Hess,
Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler,
Tzafrir Fainholtz,
Yael Allweil
Imprint: Leuven University Press
Country of Publication: Belgium
Dimensions:
Height: 233mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9789462704046
ISBN 10: 946270404X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 14 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Regine Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Yael Allweil PART 1 — HOUSING AS ARCHITECTURE FOR ALL Chapter 1. Toward a Democratic Architecture: Norwegian Experiments in Timber Maryia Rusak Chapter 2. Assembling a Home: Politics, Trauma, and the Finnish Export of Prefabricated Homes Mia Åkerfelt, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Anna Wilczyńska Chapter 3. Prefabricating a Nation: The Neighborhood of Ramat HaNasi in Bat Yam, Israel, by Architect Yitzhaq Perlstein Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan Chapter 4. The Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Skopje: An International Collection of Prefabricated Houses in the Cold War Era Tamara Bjažić Klarin PART 2 — CONVENTIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IN NEW NEIGHBORHOODS Chapter 5. Another Slab, Sheet, and Brick in the Wall: The Surge of Prefabrication in Israeli Housing, 1960–1980 Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Yael Allweil Chapter 6. Massive Blocks for Soviet Mass Housing: Standardization and Prefabrication in the Soviet Union Angelo Bertolazzi Chapter 7. Thamesmead: Prefabrication between Utopia and Dystopia Alberto Franchini PART 3 — EXHIBITIONS AND PROTOTYPES: ARCHITECTURAL MEDIATION THROUGH PREFABRICATION Chapter 8. Halls, “Huts,” and Houses: Large Exhibitions, Prefabrication, and Housing Regine Hess Chapter 9. The Milan Triennale Exhibitions and the Debate on Prefabrication in Postwar Italy Ilaria Giannetti and Stefania Mornati Chapter 10. The Living Cell Typology: Exploring Le Corbusier’s Vision through His Cabanon de vacances Maria Tassopoulou Afterword: How to Build? On the Handling of Existing and Newly Constructed Buildings Silke Langenberg References Contributors Index
Regine Hess is a habilitation candidate at Technical University of Munich. Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler is an associate professor at Sapir Academic College. Tzafrir Fainholtz is a visiting researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Turku. Yael Allweil is an associate professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture
This is an up-to-date book on a challenging subject. It presents innovative ideas on the conservation and reuse of prefabrication in architecture. - Ana Tostões, University of Lisbon
