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Boston, MA: Princeton Architectural Press. 1999. Trade paperback. Very good.. 142 pp., diagrams, illustrations, bibliography, index. . Up until the fall of the Iron Curtain, the housing estate "Baba" in Prague was a little-known tip. This was the last building exhibition which the Werkbund set up in Europe in 1932 and symbolises and entire ear, vividly depicting Modern Architecture in the Czech Republic, which has gained growing international recognition since 1989. Three generations of architects were active here; the older generation, still influenced by Cubism, include Janak and Gocar; the middle generation, whose works were purist and functionalist, include Linhart and Stary; and the younger generation, for example, Ladislav Zak, who with their sweeping forms wished to distance themselves from 'white functionalism'. With copious, unpublished source material, this book analyses for the first time the particular status which the Prague Housing Estate has in architectural history. It addresses…
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by Stephan Templ
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"If one is to believe in the number of visitors at housing exhibitions (Vienna Werkbund housing estate, over 100,000), then it was the model housing estates that were the actual ""spokesman"" of the New Architecture movement - much more so than the journals a"
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- Title Die Prager Werkbundsiedlung Baba
- Author Stephan Templ
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- Publisher Birkhauser, Basel
- Date September 1, 1999
- ISBN 9783764359911
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