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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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The Chandigarh Sector

Docomomo Journal, 2021
The neighborhood unit (Sector) in Chandigarh was conceived as a self-sufficient, repeated element to create the matrix of the city along with the hierarchical circulation system defined by the 7Vs to disburse traffic in an orderly manner.
Sangeeta Bagga
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Preserving a modern housing model

Docomomo Journal, 2021
This paper examines the history of Pedregulho Housing Neighborhood, built between 1948 and 1960 by the Department of Popular Housing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the first concepts to the restoration in 2015.
Flávia Brito do Nascimento
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Housing explorations. Unidad Vecinal Portales in Santiago

Docomomo Journal, 2021
This article explores the contribution of Unidad Vecinal Portales – built in Santiago de Chile by the studio Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo y Huidobro – to the debates on social housing in Chile between the 1940s and 1960s.
Umberto Bonomo
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Environments of Care: Two Children’s Village Projects in Postwar Greece

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Architecture held a central role in the child welfare programs developed in twentieth-century Greece. Τhis contribution discusses two key examples from the inter- and post-war periods: Panos-Nikolis Djelepy’s Children’s village in Voula, Athens (1933–34,
Stamatina Kousidi
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A Place of Infinite Possibilities

Docomomo Journal
Petite 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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Socio-psychological view on the modern charismatic movement

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2001
The emergence and activity of neo-religious groups, to which we also refer to charismatic churches, is a manifestation of one of the global trends of modern religious life-traditional encounter with a new, still unknown.
Vita Volodymyrivna Tytarenko
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Vegaviana, a colonization village

Docomomo Journal, 2021
The Instituto Nacional de Colonización built a series of villages all over Spain to support farmers who were working on the newly established irrigated lands.
Inmaculada Bote Alonso, Beatriz Montalbán Pozas   +1 more
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Modern Islamist Movements

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2013
Jon Armajani’s book seeks to explain developments within Islam that have led to the rise of such radical Islamist groups as al-Qaida and the Taliban. The text provides an intellectual background for these movements in an attempt to explain how groups that profess to pursue religious objectives could justify engaging in horrific ...
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Sunny flats will replace…A congested slum block

Docomomo Journal, 2021
The present text traces the post war slum clearance program in Sydney, Australia, that saw the construction of modern blocks of flats drawn from international examples of rehousing schemes. This State-funded urban renewal program continued from the late
Noni Boyd
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