1st Edition
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
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
Biography
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.
‘In this fresh and original book, Naina Gupta argues that architectural modernism was shaped by an “international sensibility” tied to transnational reform networks, such as workers’ rights, kindergarten and peace movements. Her hopeful account of how progressivism definitively influenced the modern project provides rich food for thought for scholars and architects today.’
Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK.
‘I believe Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation will be a valuable addition to architectural history looking more closely at the politics that constructed specific spatial typologies around a gendered and racial body. It achieves this using a methodology that is multidisciplinary and argues for a transnational historiography.’
Tatjana Crossley, Wentworth Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design, Boston, MA.
