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Manufacturing a socialist modernity : housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 / Kimberly Elman Zarecor.

By: Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studiesPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 383 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780822944041 (hbk.)
  • 0822944049 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.943709045 ZAR 2011
Contents:
Introduction: Writing a postwar history -- Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity -- Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice -- National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery -- A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha -- The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Writing a postwar history -- Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity -- Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice -- National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery -- A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha -- The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák -- Epilogue.