Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility

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Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility

A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation

History of architecture Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Social work Politics and government History of medicine General and world history Social and cultural history Civil engineering, surveying and building

Author: Naina Gupta

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Collection: Routledge Research in Architecture

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 30th May 2025

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781040344927


Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a 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 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.

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