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Preserving the Modernist Vertical Urban Factory
Cuaderno de Notas, 2016 This essay is adapted in part, from the section, “Modern Factory Architecture” case studies from Nina Rappaport’s book Vertical Urban Factory, published by Actar this spring. Vertical Urban Factory began as an architecture studio, and then an exhibition,
Nina Rappaport
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The Modern Movement in Lithuania
Docomomo Journal, 2022 Examining the variations of Lithuania's twentieth century architectural language should allow us to measure the openness towards modern culture and the country's stunningly quick and radical political transformations, which naturally affected even the ...
Vaidas Petrulis
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 In the teeming context of the 1970s, the Cité Avanchet-Parc is an undeniably original achievement, representative of the approach – above all cultural – of a generation of architects who sought to experiment with new urban and architectural forms in ...
Franz Graf, Giulia Marino
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Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research [PDF]
, 2018 The term open education has recently been used to refer to topics such as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Historically its roots lie in civil approaches to education and open universities, but this research is ...
DeVries, Irwin +3 more
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The survival and resurrection of a “Bakema-experiment” in an Amsterdam garden city
Docomomo Journal, 2021 There is a hidden gem in the Amsterdam garden cities. Jaap Bakema was the founder of an experiment in the 1950s. A piece of “Rotterdam in Amsterdam.” Based on the philosophy of an open society and the human scale.
Tim Nagtegaal
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Forgotten feminists: the Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969 [PDF]
, 2007 Using archive documents of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women (BFBPW) this article explores the role of this early business organisation in campaigning for feminist issues in the post-war period.
Perriton, L.
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A historical legacy: Henry-Russell Hitchcock and early Modernism
Cuaderno de Notas, 2015 On the occasion of the publication of Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration’s first Spanish edition. This essay aims to discuss the impact of Henry- Russell Hitchcock’s book –published in 1929– on the history of architecture.
Macarena de la Vega
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President Alemán Urban Housing Project
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán, inaugurated in 1949, was a pioneer in more ways than one and can be considered as one of the most transcendent works of Mario Pani.
Louise Noelle
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A Place of Infinite Possibilities
Docomomo JournalPetite Maison dans les Environs de Castellar: this is how Eileen Gray (1878-1976), a designer active in early 20th-century France, entitled in her cahiers the architecture she built between 1931 and 1935.
Vittoria Bonini
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The Dominican Grassroots Movement and the Organized Left, 1978–1986
, 2015 Through their struggles for better services, grassroots movements played a large role in the process of democratization and construction of social citizenship in the Dominican Republic.
Betances, Emelio
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