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Beschreibung

This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, beginning with the famous Journey to the East undertaken by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in 1911; a journey during which the future Le Corbusier was the first to appreciate the originality of the region's architecture. However, the modernity that developed after the Second World War would not have existed without the figure of Josip Broz Tito. With political and cultural acumen, this partisan and charismatic leader of Yugoslavia promoted a process of "socialist modernisation" that looked both east and west, while holding fast to a faith in a political ideology interpreted with freedom and originality. Le Corbusier and Tito are therefore the two central figures of this book. While there is no direct relationship between them, this book presents a series of intersecting relations, beginning with the interpretation of Yugoslavia's cities and architecture, to trace a path that gives this region an unquestionably central position in the international architectural panorama of the twentieth century.

This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, beginning with the famous Journey to the East undertaken by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in 1911; a journey during which the future Le Corbusier was the first to appreciate the originality of the region's architecture. However, the modernity that developed after the Second World War would not have existed without the figure of Josip Broz Tito. With political and cultural acumen, this partisan and charismatic leader of Yugoslavia promoted a process of "socialist modernisation" that looked both east and west, while holding fast to a faith in a political ideology interpreted with freedom and originality. Le Corbusier and Tito are therefore the two central figures of this book. While there is no direct relationship between them, this book presents a series of intersecting relations, beginning with the interpretation of Yugoslavia's cities and architecture, to trace a path that gives this region an unquestionably central position in the international architectural panorama of the twentieth century.

Über den Autor

Lorenzo Pignatti (1954) has been Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture - Università G. d'Annunzio - Pescara (Italy) until 2024, where he acted as Director of the Department of Architecture from 2020 to 2023 and Course Coordinator from 2015 to 2020.

He carries out studies and research on the Adriatic and Balkan region. He has promoted numerous international exchange initiatives, organized conferences and workshops in various countries, and published numerous publications and essays on these themes. He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo (Canada), where he was for many years the director of the Rome Programme.

He has always been an investigator of various phenomena related to the development of modernity and has reinterpreted them both in theoretical research and in design. He was a founding partner of the Ottone Pignatti Architetti (Rome) which concentrated its work on urban regeneration and the design of public spaces.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Foreword: Yugoslavia: Urbanization and the Question of Historic Time in a Semi-Peripheral Condition 1. The Balkans: Geography, History and Cities 2. Le Corbusier's Journey to the East 3. Toward Modernism: Architecture and the City Between the Two World Wars 4. Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia 5. Urbanism and Architecture in the Balkans During the Second Post-War Period 6. Dušan Grabrijan and Juraj Neidhardt: Architecture of Bosnia and the Way [Toward] Modernity

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften/Recht/Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Architext
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781041138839
ISBN-10: 1041138830
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pignatti, Lorenzo
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Architext
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 244 x 171 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Lorenzo Pignatti
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.01.2026
Gewicht: 0,49 kg
Artikel-ID: 134448701