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The Architectures of Childhood - Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England (Paperback)
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The Architectures of Childhood - Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the
centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in
architectural history. Some of the seminal projects of the period,
such as the Secondary Modern School at Hunstanton by Peter and
Alison Smithson, Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles,
or Aldo van Eyck's playgrounds and orphanage, were designed for
children; At CIAM, architects utilized photographs of children to
present their visions for reconstruction. The unprecedented
visibility of the child to architectural discourse during the
period of reconstruction is the starting point for this
interdisciplinary study of modern architecture under welfare state
patronage. Focusing mainly on England, this book examines a series
of innovative buildings and environments developed for children,
such as the adventure playground, the Hertfordshire school, the
reformed children hospital, Brutalist housing estates, and New
Towns. It studies the methods employed by architects, child experts
and policy makers to survey, assess and administer the
physiological, emotional and developmental needs of the 'user', the
child. It identifies the new aesthetic and spatial order permeating
the environments of childhood, based on endowing children with the
agency and autonomy to create a self-regulating social order out of
their own free will, while rendering their interiority and
sociability observable and governable. By inserting the
architectural object within a broader social and political context,
The Architectures of Childhood situates post-war architecture
within the welfare state's project of governing the self, which
most intensively targeted the citizen in the making, the children.
Yet the emphasis on the utilization of architecture as an
instrument of power does not reduce it into a mere document of
social policy, as the author uncovers the surplus of meaning and
richness of experience invested in these environments at the
historical mom
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