Synopses & Reviews
This volume coins the term and#147;Team 10 Eastand#8221; as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countriesand#151;such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Poland#243;nyi of Hungary, and Radovan Nikand#353;ic of Yugoslavia. This new term allows the bookand#8217;s contributors to approach these individuals from a comparative perspective on socialist modernism in Central and Eastern Europe and to discuss the relationship between modernism and modernization across the Iron Curtain. In so doing, Team 10 East addresses and#147;revisionismand#8221; in state-socialist architecture and politics as well as shows how Team 10 East architects appropriated, critiqued, and developed postwar modernist architecture and functionalist urbanism both from within and beyond the confines of a Europe split by the Cold War.
Review
and#8220;I am convinced that the introduction of the oeuvre of Hansen to the international debate, as aimed for by the conference held at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, will break new ground in the discourse of the history of modern architecture and open up new fields of enquiry for current research and historiography.and#8221;
Review
andldquo;Opens up a new, nuanced perspective onto the established narrative of the transition from CIAM to Team 10.andrdquo;
Review
andquot;Excellent research.andrdquo;
Synopsis
This book coins the concept of Team 10 East as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow-travelers from state-socialist countries, such as Oskar Hansen (Poland), Charles Polónyi (Hungary), or Radovan Nikšic (Yugoslavia); and to show their appropriation, critique, and development of post-war modernist architecture and functionalist urbanism from within and beyond the conditions of Cold-War divided Europe.
Synopsis
Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, Oskar Hansenand#151;Opening Modernism analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Hansen, who was the Polish member of Team 10, a group of architects that challenged standard views of urbanism more than fifty years ago. In chronicling the impact of Hansenand#8217;s theory of and#147;Open Formand#8221; on architecture, urban planning, experimental film, and visual arts in postwar Poland, this volume traces the flow of architectural ideas in a Europe divided by the Cold War. Through discussions of the ideas of openness and participation in state-socialist economies, Oskar Hansenand#151;Opening Modernism offers new insights into exhibition design and the interrelations of architecture, visual arts, and the state.
About the Author
Lukasz Stanek is the 2011-13 A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and a lecturer at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre of the University of Manchester, UK. He is author of Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory and Postmodernism Is Almost All Right: Polish Architecture After Socialist Globalization.
Table of Contents
The Open Form in Architectureand#151;the Art of the Great Number
Oskar Hansen, Zofia Hansen
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Introduction
Aleksandra Kedziorek, Lukasz Ronduda
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Politics of Scale
and#160;
Oskar Hansenand#8217;s Radical Humanism: Open Form Against a Cold War Background
Joan Ockman
and#160;
Team 10 East: The Socialist State as an Architectural Project
Lukasz Stanek
and#160;
LCS, or What Is a City?
Andrzej Szczerski
and#160;
PREVI: Experimental Housing Project in Lima
Aleksandra Kedziorek
and#160;
Architecture of Events
and#160;
Space Educates
Felicity D. Scott
and#160;
The Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Lukasz Mojsak
and#160;
The Studio Theater
Aleksandra Kedziorek
and#160;
Architects on the Fringe: Polish Exhibition Design After 1945
Tomasz Fudala
and#160;
Counter-Memorial
and#160;
Open Form, Public Sculpture and the Counter-Memorial: Encounters Between Henry Moore and Oskar Hansen
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
and#160;
House as Open Form
and#160;
Visiting the Hansens
Aleksandra Kedziorek
and#160;
Art and Open Form
and#160;
The Didactics of Oskar Hansen
Jola Cola
and#160;
Adaptation Proposal for the Seat of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Artsand#8217; Faculty of Sculpture
Aleksandra Kedziorek
and#160;
Visual Games
Lukasz Ronduda
and#160;
You Live and You Learn: Open Form Put to the Test
Karol Sienkiewicz
and#160;
Walking with Hansen
David Crowley
and#160;
Oskar Hansen: a Biography
and#160;
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