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_id: '12672'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like
no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive
exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave
rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of
nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and
assembling structures. The book’s contributions, with a geographical emphasis
on Europe and Israel, offer innovative approaches to the history of prefabrication.
Some explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland
and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication’s role
in the history of global architecture and planning after WWII, notably in the
USSR and Italy. The chapters encompass a broad spectrum of topics, including colonial
expansion, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialised
design. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication,
tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately
concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their
adaptation for the future. Within the broader context of transnational and regional
research, Between Conventional and Experimental presents novel and forward-thinking
approaches to prefabrication and mass housing. Drawing from transnational architectural
history, construction history, housing studies, monument preservation, and exhibition
studies, it effectively highlights the profound relevance of prefabrication history
to our understanding of the cultural and material history of the built environment.
author:
- first_name: Uta
full_name: Pottgiesser, Uta
id: '27166'
last_name: Pottgiesser
orcid: 0000-0002-8594-3168
citation:
ama: 'Pottgiesser U. Foreword. In: Hess R, Ben-Asher Gitler Inbal , Fainholtz T,
Allweil Yael , Leuven University Press, eds. Between Conventional and Experimental:
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture. Leuven University
Press; 2024:7-12. doi:10.11116/9789461665515'
apa: 'Pottgiesser, U. (2024). Foreword. In R. Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, T.
Fainholtz, Yael Allweil, & Leuven University Press (Eds.), Between Conventional
and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture.
(pp. 7–12). Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665515'
bjps: 'Pottgiesser U (2024) Foreword. In Hess R et al. (eds), Between
Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 7–12.'
chicago: 'Pottgiesser, Uta. “Foreword.” In Between Conventional and Experimental:
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., edited by Regine Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher
Gitler, Tzafrir Fainholtz, Yael Allweil, and Leuven University Press, 7–12.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665515.'
chicago-de: 'Pottgiesser, Uta. 2024. Foreword. In: Between Conventional and Experimental:
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., hg. von Regine Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher
Gitler, Tzafrir Fainholtz, Yael Allweil, und Leuven University Press, 7–12.
Leuven: Leuven University Press. doi:10.11116/9789461665515,
.'
din1505-2-1: 'Pottgiesser, Uta: Foreword.
In: Hess, R. ; Ben-Asher
Gitler, Inbal ; Fainholtz, T.
; Allweil, Yael ; Leuven
University Press (Hrsg.): Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass
Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture.. Leuven : Leuven University
Press, 2024, S. 7–12'
havard: 'U. Pottgiesser, Foreword, in: R. Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, T. Fainholtz, Yael Allweil,
Leuven University Press (Eds.), Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing
and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., Leuven University Press, Leuven,
2024: pp. 7–12.'
ieee: 'U. Pottgiesser, “Foreword,” in Between Conventional and Experimental:
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., R. Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher
Gitler, T. Fainholtz, Yael Allweil, and Leuven University Press, Eds. Leuven:
Leuven University Press, 2024, pp. 7–12. doi: 10.11116/9789461665515.'
mla: 'Pottgiesser, Uta. “Foreword.” Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass
Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., edited by Regine Hess
et al., Leuven University Press, 2024, pp. 7–12, https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665515.'
short: 'U. Pottgiesser, in: R. Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, T. Fainholtz, Yael Allweil,
Leuven University Press (Eds.), Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing
and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture., Leuven University Press, Leuven,
2024, pp. 7–12.'
ufg: 'Pottgiesser, Uta: Foreword, in: Hess, Regine u. a. (Hgg.): Between
Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture.,
Leuven 2024, S. 7–12.'
van: 'Pottgiesser U. Foreword. In: Hess R, Ben-Asher Gitler Inbal , Fainholtz T,
Allweil Yael , Leuven University Press, editors. Between Conventional and Experimental:
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture. Leuven: Leuven University
Press; 2024. p. 7–12.'
corporate_editor:
- Leuven University Press
date_created: 2025-03-09T18:25:26Z
date_updated: 2025-03-10T08:34:12Z
department:
- _id: DEP1055
- _id: DEP1620
doi: 10.11116/9789461665515
editor:
- first_name: 'Regine '
full_name: 'Hess, Regine '
last_name: Hess
- first_name: ' Inbal '
full_name: 'Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal '
last_name: Ben-Asher Gitler
- first_name: Tzafrir
full_name: Fainholtz, Tzafrir
last_name: Fainholtz
- first_name: ' Yael '
full_name: 'Allweil, Yael '
last_name: Allweil
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/222007363/9789461665515.pdf
oa: '1'
page: 7-12
place: Leuven
publication: 'Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication
in Modernist Architecture.'
publication_identifier:
eisbn:
- 978-94-6166-551-5
- '978-94-6166-609-3 '
isbn:
- 978-94-6270-404-6
publication_status: published
publisher: Leuven University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Foreword
type: book_chapter
user_id: '83781'
year: '2024'
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