The Architectures of Childhood
Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England
by Roy Kozlovsky

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Author(s)

Roy Kozlovsky

Publication

Oxon : Routledge, 2016

Scope

279 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781138246973

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Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in architectural history. Some of the seminal projects of the period, such as the Secondary Modern School at Hunstanton by Peter and Alison Smithson, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation at Marseilles, or Aldo van Eyck’s playgrounds and orphanage, were designed for children. The Architectures of Childhood situates post-war architecture within the welfare state’s project of governing the self, which most intensively targeted the citizen in the making, the children.

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Keywords

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Location

Cabinet 17 - 3: Stad en Bewoners

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.