Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197266915
- eISBN:
- 9780191938177
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266915.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This volume explores how conflicts between secularist ideologies and religious faiths shaped global history in the twentieth century. The chapters approach the dynamic effects of these struggles by ...
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This volume explores how conflicts between secularist ideologies and religious faiths shaped global history in the twentieth century. The chapters approach the dynamic effects of these struggles by focussing on ‘apologetics’, i.e. the discourses, strategies and institutions deployed by religious and secularist actors on the front lines to articulate the faith and defend against the enemy. From the futurology of HG Wells to Cold War evangelicalism to the contentious negotiations over Islam between Communists and the royal house in 1970s Morocco, apologetics is here revealed to be a key site interaction across ideological boundaries. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, with examples drawn from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia, the chapters offer new perspectives on the religious dimension of local and global religious politics between the First World War and the end of the Cold War.Less
This volume explores how conflicts between secularist ideologies and religious faiths shaped global history in the twentieth century. The chapters approach the dynamic effects of these struggles by focussing on ‘apologetics’, i.e. the discourses, strategies and institutions deployed by religious and secularist actors on the front lines to articulate the faith and defend against the enemy. From the futurology of HG Wells to Cold War evangelicalism to the contentious negotiations over Islam between Communists and the royal house in 1970s Morocco, apologetics is here revealed to be a key site interaction across ideological boundaries. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, with examples drawn from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia, the chapters offer new perspectives on the religious dimension of local and global religious politics between the First World War and the end of the Cold War.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 1 describes why housing policies privileging industrialized production methods, large sites, and modern architectural forms came to prevail and how such policies entered into the purview of ...
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Chapter 1 describes why housing policies privileging industrialized production methods, large sites, and modern architectural forms came to prevail and how such policies entered into the purview of national modernization.Less
Chapter 1 describes why housing policies privileging industrialized production methods, large sites, and modern architectural forms came to prevail and how such policies entered into the purview of national modernization.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0002
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 2 examines the emergence of a bureaucratic epistemology as domestic and community life became a central focus in attempts of architects, planners, policy makers, and especially social ...
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Chapter 2 examines the emergence of a bureaucratic epistemology as domestic and community life became a central focus in attempts of architects, planners, policy makers, and especially social scientists, to satisfy housing needs for French working and middle class nuclear families.Less
Chapter 2 examines the emergence of a bureaucratic epistemology as domestic and community life became a central focus in attempts of architects, planners, policy makers, and especially social scientists, to satisfy housing needs for French working and middle class nuclear families.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0005
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 5 examines the sociologically-informed method of programmation in the planning and design of the villes nouvelles or French New Towns, an ambitious program officially launched in 1965.
Chapter 5 examines the sociologically-informed method of programmation in the planning and design of the villes nouvelles or French New Towns, an ambitious program officially launched in 1965.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0006
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 6 focuses on the making of new urban centers for the villes nouvelles, which integrated a vast number of commercial and residential functions in an attempt to recreate urban density and ...
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Chapter 6 focuses on the making of new urban centers for the villes nouvelles, which integrated a vast number of commercial and residential functions in an attempt to recreate urban density and centrality in the sprawling suburbs of the Paris region.Less
Chapter 6 focuses on the making of new urban centers for the villes nouvelles, which integrated a vast number of commercial and residential functions in an attempt to recreate urban density and centrality in the sprawling suburbs of the Paris region.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0004
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Focusing on Sarcelles and Grenoble-Villeneuve, Chapter 4 explores how the emergence of participation in French planning and architecture coincided with a surge in sociological and architectural ...
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Focusing on Sarcelles and Grenoble-Villeneuve, Chapter 4 explores how the emergence of participation in French planning and architecture coincided with a surge in sociological and architectural expertise.Less
Focusing on Sarcelles and Grenoble-Villeneuve, Chapter 4 explores how the emergence of participation in French planning and architecture coincided with a surge in sociological and architectural expertise.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0007
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 7 focuses on the development of alternative housing models such as flexible dwelling (habitat évolutif) and intermediary housing (habitat intermédiaire), which were meant combine qualities of ...
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Chapter 7 focuses on the development of alternative housing models such as flexible dwelling (habitat évolutif) and intermediary housing (habitat intermédiaire), which were meant combine qualities of single-family home living with the economies of scale in mass production.Less
Chapter 7 focuses on the development of alternative housing models such as flexible dwelling (habitat évolutif) and intermediary housing (habitat intermédiaire), which were meant combine qualities of single-family home living with the economies of scale in mass production.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0008
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
The conclusion explores how this history shapes our understanding of architecture’s social ambitions today.
The conclusion explores how this history shapes our understanding of architecture’s social ambitions today.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
The Social Project: Housing Postwar France demonstrates how several bodies of knowledge – architectural, sociological, technological, and bureaucratic – shaped postwar modernism and the making of ...
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The Social Project: Housing Postwar France demonstrates how several bodies of knowledge – architectural, sociological, technological, and bureaucratic – shaped postwar modernism and the making of contemporary urban France. In less than three decades after WWII, France evolved from a largely rural country with an insufficient and outdated housing stock to a highly modernized urban nation. The book traces how this evolution resulted from an unprecedented upshift in production, ranging from mass housing and community centers to entirely new towns. Overturning the prevailing myth that these built environments are the products of a single utopian blueprint gone awry, it unearths three decades of architectural and social scientific experiments centered on everyday life as a object of modernization and domain of expertise. In no other country did modernism and modernization come together in such an intense way that it shaped both contemporary urbanity and our understanding of the social project of architecture at large. Most literature, both scholarly and popular, reads the resulting environments through the lens of current events and explains the recurring social unrest in some of these now deprived neighborhoods with architectural determinism. My book demonstrates how such determinism is itself part of the making these environments, in which social science and architectural design continually informed each other. This study has implications far beyond France; it offers a methodological reframing of the historical agency of architecture and excavates the unprecedented regime of building and knowledge that shaped the postwar city.Less
The Social Project: Housing Postwar France demonstrates how several bodies of knowledge – architectural, sociological, technological, and bureaucratic – shaped postwar modernism and the making of contemporary urban France. In less than three decades after WWII, France evolved from a largely rural country with an insufficient and outdated housing stock to a highly modernized urban nation. The book traces how this evolution resulted from an unprecedented upshift in production, ranging from mass housing and community centers to entirely new towns. Overturning the prevailing myth that these built environments are the products of a single utopian blueprint gone awry, it unearths three decades of architectural and social scientific experiments centered on everyday life as a object of modernization and domain of expertise. In no other country did modernism and modernization come together in such an intense way that it shaped both contemporary urbanity and our understanding of the social project of architecture at large. Most literature, both scholarly and popular, reads the resulting environments through the lens of current events and explains the recurring social unrest in some of these now deprived neighborhoods with architectural determinism. My book demonstrates how such determinism is itself part of the making these environments, in which social science and architectural design continually informed each other. This study has implications far beyond France; it offers a methodological reframing of the historical agency of architecture and excavates the unprecedented regime of building and knowledge that shaped the postwar city.
Kenny Cupers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689644
- eISBN:
- 9781452949086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689644.003.0003
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Chapter 3 demonstrates how the social and political ambition to “animate” newly built housing areas shaped planning and design.
Chapter 3 demonstrates how the social and political ambition to “animate” newly built housing areas shaped planning and design.
