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Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War / Jean-Louis Cohen.

by Cohen, Jean-Louis.

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Paris : Hazan, [2011]

Architecture and war -- History -- 20th century.

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.

9780920785928 (hardcover)

0920785921 (hardcover)

447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Overture: the test of war -- Architects and cities go off to war -- Total mobilisation, from the factory to the kitchen -- Producing production and workers' housing -- The menace from the air -- Camouflage, or The temptation of the invisible -- Architects and bombs, from bunkers to napalm -- Mobility and prefabrication -- Macro and micro or the issue of scale -- On the information front -- Alternative futures: occupation and reconstruction -- Recycling, recalling, forgetting.

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that during the years between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and of Hiroshima in 1945, specific advances were fundamental to the process of modernization and led to the definitive supremacy of modernism in architecture. Centering the discussion on ten main themes, the author investigates various aspects of architecture's mobilization in the war years, as well as the trajectories of individual architects. He analyzes architectural developments worldwide and takes into account each of the major participants in the war, including the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The book not only focuses on plans, buildings, and technological inventions but also examines the many types of visual representation used for war purposes, enhanced by a rich array of more than 300 illustrations. -- Book Description.

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