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Author:
Cohen, Jean-Louis.
Title:
Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War / Jean-Louis Cohen.
Publisher:
Canadian Centre for Architecture ;
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
447 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.
Architecture and war.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects.
Architecture--20e siècle--Expositions.
Architecture et guerre--Expositions.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951--Expositions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Overture: the test of war -- Architects and cities go off to war -- Total mobilisation, from the factory to the kitchen -- Producing production and workers' housing -- The menace from the air -- Camouflage, or The temptation of the invisible -- Architects and bombs, from bunkers to napalm -- Mobility and prefabrication -- Macro and micro or the issue of scale -- On the information front -- Alternative futures: occupation and reconstruction -- Recycling, recalling, forgetting.
ISBN:
0920785921
9780920785928
2754105301 (cloth : alk. paper)
9782754105309 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)670483597
LCCN:
2011006761
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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