scholarly journals Architecture in Translation: Le Corbusier’s influence in Australia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony Moulis
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Northern Africa ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

Abstract: While there is an abundance of commentary and criticism on Le Corbusier’s effect upon architecture and planning globally – in Europe, Northern Africa, the Americas and the Indian sub-continent – there is very little dealing with other contexts such as Australia. The paper will offer a first appraisal of Le Corbusier’s relationship with Australia, providing example of the significant international reach of his ideas to places he was never to set foot. It draws attention to Le Corbusier's contacts with architects who practiced in Australia and little known instances of his connections - his drawing of the City of Adelaide plan (1950) and his commission for art at Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House (1958). The paper also considers the ways that Le Corbusier’s work underwent translation into Australian architecture and urbanism in the mid to late 20th century through the influence his work exerted on others, identifying further possibilities for research on the topic.  Keywords: Le Corbusier; post-war architecture; international modernism; Australian architecture, 20th century architecture. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.752 

scholarly journals Urban Policies and Large Projects in Central City Areas: The Example of Madrid (Spain)

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Dolores Brandis García
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Central City ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Since the late 20th century major, European cities have exhibited large projects driven by neoliberal urban planning policies whose aim is to enhance their position on the global market. By locating these projects in central city areas, they also heighten and reinforce their privileged situation within the city as a whole, thus contributing to deepening the centre–periphery rift. The starting point for this study is the significance and scope of large projects in metropolitan cities’ urban planning agendas since the final decade of the 20th century. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the correlation between the various opposing conservative and progressive urban policies, and the projects put forward, for the city of Madrid. A study of documentary sources and the strategies deployed by public and private agents are interpreted in the light of a process during which the city has had a succession of alternating governments defending opposing urban development models. This analysis allows us to conclude that the predominant large-scale projects proposed under conservative policies have contributed to deepening the centre–periphery rift appreciated in the city.

For Girls: The Sexual Politics of Girls’ Comics in Post-War Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tegwyn Hughes
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
British Society ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Main Basis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War

This paper will investigate girls’ comics in late 20th century Britain to illuminate the experiences of the adolescent post-war generation. My research focuses on girls’ comics, specifically Bunty, Mandy, and Judy, which were read widely throughout the country. The illustrated stories in these publications typically portrayed teenage girls as the protagonists in a variety of situations and adventures. By using the primary source documents of the comics as the main basis for my research, I explore the following questions: to what extent did the comics reflect the changing assumptions about gender and gender expectations in British society from the 1950s to 1970s? Did girls feel empowered by the stories they read, or did they feel like they had to conform to a certain ideal of womanhood produced by gender norms? How were these ideals configured by race, especially by Caribbean migration in post-war Britain? By examining this small portion of British popular culture and its reception, I will gain a wider understanding of fluid and dynamic ideas about gender in these crucial decades of the late 20th century.  

scholarly journals Emerging Urban Forms

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Boseman ◽  
◽  
Brian Carter ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Joseph Rykwert held a lecture in Zurich five or six years ago in which he posed the question "is the city an object or a field." This question seems to be answered very easily: when the buildings are high and standing next to one another like in Manhattan, it looks like an object; when you look to many post war extensions that were prepared in response to a lot of propaganda by the modem movement in Europe, it looks more like a field. For my generation, which was educated in the 1970's, this kind of doubleness of object and fields has doubled again. You must know that Joseph Rykwert, when he poses this question, thinks of the Unite &Habitation of Le Corbusier and the way Colin Rowe criticized it as an object, and he is on the side of the Smithsons and other younger people, who tried as architects to link these slab-like forms in networks that looked more like a field.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domingo Morel
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Cornel West ◽  
The City

On January 18, 2014, Newark was once again at the center of the black political power universe, as it had been in July 1967, when the city hosted the first National Conference on Black Power. This time, generations of activists gathered in Newark to commemorate the life of Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), a poet, an activist, and one of the most influential black political and intellectual figures in the late 20th century. The ceremony was officiated by the actor and activist Danny Glover and included performances and poetry readings, including a poem written by Maya Angelou and read by Sonia Sanchez. The scholar Cornel West also spoke at the funeral, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to an audience of thousands the night before at Baraka’s wake....

Voice and Disjuncture in Celebrity Impersonation

Multivocality ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Katherine Meizel
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Corporate Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Las Vegas is a reflection of neoliberal globalization—not only in its collection and display of global imagery but also in its shift from mob-dependent finances to late 20th-century corporate capitalism (Ventura 2012: 46). The topography of the world captured in a souvenir snow globe, the city offers visitors a set of intertwined performative layers, a collection of façades and masquerades that shape the city’s distinctive character. Theatrical transvestism in Vegas has performed and celebrated many permutations of difference (a Black Elvis, a male Barbra Streisand), at once underlining and undermining the fluidity of identity. Chapter 3 details the ways in which such disjunctures between bodies and voices—gendered, disabled, racialized—are manipulated by Vegas celebrity impersonators, and how they paradoxically contribute to the construction of these performers’ own identities.

scholarly journals THE MIDDLE 19TH CENTURY – EARLY 21ST CENTURY FUNCTIONING OF LVIV’S HORONYMS

2017 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Maryana Dolynska
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Retrospective Comparison ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

There are official and traditional names of places upon the territory of the town or the city. They have existed from the ancient times till contemporary days. The official ones have been given by the executive body, and the traditional names are describing the place by nearby locations, buildings or natural objects. Toponyms are divided into different classes and subclasses. Horonyms describe nonlinear structures (territories) and were used to call any places on the town’s area, except for streets or squares. Horonyms do not provide the information about the official administrative division of the contemporary time but were putting traditional names in use.In order to answer the question - how long this class of the city’s names lasted, one has to base on retrospective comparison of the pre-statistical source. The contemporary vocabulary of Lviv’s dialect (“Leksykon lvivskyy povazhno i na zhart”) have fixed 65 horonyms of Lviv’s area, which currentlyare being used by city dwellers. That was the basement of analysis by the retrospective method. This data was compared with such sources: late 19 c.-early 20 c. guidebooks and middle 19 c. maps with their accompaniment notes.The administrative units’ division of Lviv’s territory was applied in this article because during the long 19 century Lviv was a part of Austro-Hungary Empire. That’s why 4 groups of horonyms were excluded: 1. the names of the former city’s villages that are currently preserved as the city’s horonyms because those villages were absorbed into the city only during 20th century. (Today names of those former villages do not reflect the administrative units’ division); 2. village Sygnivka, which was founded only in the 20th years of 19thcentury on the area of the former suburb Halytskie of Lviv’s early modern period; 3. the names of villages, which surrounded town’s area, but were not under the rule of the town hall; 4. all names of objects, which were upon the area of these villages.So after the exclusion, we have 48 names (horonyms). The analysis showed that one name came into being in the late 20th century and eight other ones during its first half. Fifteen horonyms, as well, as their names were founded during the 19th century. So, that leaves us with twenty-four names, which were established during the earlier period and are being used now in the city. We need to continue research on a retrospective comparison of the named recorded in the early modern serial sources.

London, Royal Opera House: ‘The Blackened Man’

Tempo ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (223) ◽  
pp. 87-89
Author(s):  
Jill Barlow
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Opera House ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
The City

Will Todd, born in Durham in 1970, has an extensive output of compositions to his credit, including highly-charged operas and oratorios, largely centred around themes from northeastern England, notably the workers' struggle against early 19th and 20th-century injustice and oppression. I had heard his emotive cantata The Burning Road performed at St Albans Cathedral in February 2002 – it depicts the relentless, footsore Jarrow Marchers of 1936 who stopped in the city en route to London – and was interested to hear the follow-up in his new opera on an allied theme: The Blackened Man.

scholarly journals Autopia: Notes on Banham’s Visionary Metropolis

2016 ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Reyner Banham

In 1959 Reyner Banham challenged zoned urbanism by combining the Situationist psychogeographic drift with his love for Los Angeles. His essay “City as Scrambled Egg” (Banham, 1959) effectively produced a new urban image and introduced a new outlook on postwar modernization, communication, and leisure. The radicalization of contemporary life resonated in images of the city as decentralized, free, and in motion. While Le Corbusier had compared the city to an egg with demarcating zones and boundaries, Banham argued that motorization and telecommunications had long scrambled the city; “I don’t just mean in Los Angeles. A large part of the population of Europe already lives conurbatively” (Banham, 1959, p. 21). The entire region between Amsterdam and Rotterdam was already one conurbanized arena, effectively formulating an early definition of the megalopolis.Unlike CIAM’s city of the urban core with designated outskirts, thecenter was now seen to be everywhere. For Banham, this was theterrain of contemporary urbanization that needed to be understoodby holding prejudgments at bay and instead doing, what he called,“leg-work on the territory” (Banham, 1959, p. 21). But, as his ongoing fascinations with Futurism and post-war technologies revealed, this departure from modernist imagery of the city was not a disregard of modernist urban utopias but a way to rework these ideas towards a new kind of visionary; one that is less about forecasting the new and, instead, is contingent on a new optical vision of the existing city. A key site for his development of a different way of seeing the modernized urban world was the city of Los Angeles and particularly its traffic, which he called “Autopia.”

scholarly journals How Jewish Refugee Critics Changed British Literary Criticism, 1970–2020

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
David Herman
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Jewish Refugee ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Post War

During the mid- and late 20th century, a small group of Jewish refugee critics changed the way British culture thought about what kind of literature mattered and why. These outsiders went on to have an enormous impact on late 20th-century British literary culture. What was this impact? Why in the last third of the 20th century? Why did British literary culture become so much more receptive to critics like George Steiner, Gabriel Josipovici, Martin Esslin and SS Prawer and to a new canon of continental Jewish writers? The obstacles to Jewish refugee critics were formidable. Yet their work on writers like Kafka, Brecht and Paul Celan, and thinkers like Heidegger and Lukacs had a huge impact. They also broke the post-war silence about the Holocaust and moved the Jewish Bibl from the margins of English-speaking culture.

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