Making a New World

Rajesh Heynickx is gewoon hoogleraar aan de Faculteit Architectuur en voorzitter van het Departement Architectuur van de KU Leuven.Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture at Delft University with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.

• PROLOGUE Rajesh Heynickx and Tom AvermaeteCommunity as a Prism. Re-aligning the Architectural Theory and Practice of the Interwar PeriodEXEGESISRajesh HeynickxIntroduction Thomas RohkrämerGerman Cultural Criticism. The Desire for a Sense of Place and CommunityDavid MatlessCommunities of Landscape. Nation, Locality and Modernity in Interwar EnglandMichiel DehaeneThe (Il)legible City. Civic Survey and the Imagined CommunityHilde HeynenModernity and Community. A Difficult CombinationEXPERIENCE Marieke KuipersIntroductionStuart EvansModel Homes for Working Class Urban LivingMartin Kohlrausch'Houses of Glass'. Modern Architecture and the Idea of Community in Poland, 1925-1944Barry CurtisNegotiated Modernism. British Suburbia between the WarsKenny CupersMaking Camp. Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth MovementsEXPECTATIONElizabeth DarlingIntroductionElizabeth DarlingNuclei of a Genuine Urban Life. Bringing the Country to the City in 1930s LondonTom AvermaeteBuilding Internal Colonies. Play, Form and Youth Environments in Interwar FranceHansjakob ZiemerModernizing Musical Spaces. Music Halls and Utopian Communities in Frankfurt am Main, 1900-1930Marieke KuipersColonizing Fresh Air. Community and Reform in Dutch Vacation Colonies and De VonkIMAGINATION Tom Avermaete & Rajesh HeynickxIntroductionBruno NotteboomImages of the Countryside. Landscape, Village and Community in the Discourse of Belgian FarmersRajesh HeynickxA Law of Inertia. The Tower as Site and Symbol in Interwar FlandersNader VossoughianThe Sociology of the City. Otto Neurath and the Concept of GemeinwirtschaftCharles van den HeuvelEnvisioning Knowledge Architectures for a World Society. Paul Otlet's Architectural and Epistemic Design StrategiesBibliographyIndex of personsAuthorsColophon