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ISBN: PB: 9788364177057

University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

June 2014

350 pp.

19x13.9 cm

20 colour plates, 100 halftones

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£22,00
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Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism

On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics

Not for sale in Poland!


Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Hansen, who was the Polish member of Team 10, a group of architects that challenged standard views of urbanism more than fifty years ago. In chronicling the impact of Hansen's theory of "Open Form" on architecture, urban planning, experimental film, and visual arts in postwar Poland, this volume traces the flow of architectural ideas in a Europe divided by the Cold War. Through discussions of the ideas of openness and participation in state-socialist economies, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" offers new insights into exhibition design and the interrelations of architecture, visual arts, and the state.

Reviews

"I am convinced that the introduction of the oeuvre of Hansen to the international debate, as aimed for by the conference held at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, will break new ground in the discourse of the history of modern architecture and open up new fields of enquiry for current research and historiography" – Dirk van den Heuvel, Delft University of Technology