Domesticity at War

Name: Domesticity at War
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ISBN: 9780262033619

ISBN-10: 0262033615

ISBN-13: 9780262033619

Edition: 2007

Authors: Beatriz Colomina

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In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. In Domesticity at War,Beatriz Colomina shows how postwar American architecture adapted the techniques and materials that were developed for military applications to domestic use. Just as manufacturers were turning wartime industry to peacetime productivity--going from missiles to washing machines--American architects and cultural institutions were, in Buckminster Fullerrsquo;s words, turning "weaponry into livingry." This new form of domesticity itself turned out to be a…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.06" wide x 10.31" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the editor of Sexuality and Space, which was awarded the International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects. She is the coeditor of Cold War Hot Houses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy. Her most recent book is Doble exposiciï¿½n: Arquitectura a travï¿½s del arte.



Introduction: Built in the USA



1949



DDU at MoMA



The Eames House



The Lawn at War



X-Ray Architecture



Unbreathed Air



Enclosed by Images



The Underground House


Epilogue