scholarly journals Las aportaciones de Gropius y Wachsmann a la industria de las casas de madera

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Bartolomé Serra Soriano ◽  
Alfonso Díaz Segura ◽  
Ricardo Merí de la Maza
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Continuous Review ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Prefabricated Houses ◽  
Walter Gropius ◽  
Second World

<div><p>Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann made a significant contribution to the housing prefabrication industry. After the Second World War, they set principles that have served as a basis for continuous revisions in the interests of optimising the industry. The Packaged Houses are a research that shows a continuous review of the processes and constructive systems of prefabricated houses. This article tries to study (following a chronological criterion and focused on the context of this type of construction) the experience of Gropius and Wachsmann and their contributions as a basis for other investigations that, even today, continue their course.</p></div>

Robert Duguid Forrest Pring-Mill 1924–2005

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Second World ◽  
Calderón De La Barca

Robert Pring-Mill was one of a generation of young men whose education was interrupted by the Second World War and who went to university as mature students after demobilisation. In Hispanic Studies, as in other subject areas, it was academics of that generation who laid the foundations of the modern discipline, and Pring-Mill, an all-rounder who firmly believed that his various research activities were mutually enriching, had the distinction of making a significant contribution to several of its branches. In the course of his career, but primarily in the early stages, he produced a body of studies that earned him recognition as one of the world's foremost authorities on the work of medieval poet, mystic, philosopher, and theologian Ramon Lhull. Pring-Mill's most substantial and most important work in the area of Golden Age literature was his writings on Spain's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

scholarly journals Either with Us or Against Us: British Perceptions of the Irish in World War Two

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katherine Kimber-Alldridge
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Irish People ◽  
Second World ◽  
Key Questions

Literature on Anglo-Irish relations in the Second World War has suggested that in British popular and political discourse the neutral Irish were felt complacent, shortsighted, stubborn, stupid, and cowardly. Extreme opinion held them treacherous. However, there was significant Anglo-Irish intelligence collaboration, many Irish served in the British Forces and a significant contribution was made by Irish immigrant labour during the war. Yet ambivalent and dismissive perceptions of the Irish continued and grew during World War Two. This thesis will examine the ways in which contemporarypopular perceptions of “Irishness” were affected by cultural antipathy, the actions of the Irish state, the influx of immigrant Irish workers and the recruitment of Irish volunteers into the British Armed Forces, during the years of 1939-1945. Key questions that appear here are whether the shifting circumstances of war changed attitudes to the Irish, and further if, at time of extreme threat to Britain and her Empire, was Ireland, though neutral, considered an enemy.Concentrating on the public discourse on the Irish states conduct during the war, attitudes towards Irish people and British experiences of Irish immigrant workers and Irish people in the British Forces, this survey will illuminate the depth and breadth of ambivalence towards Eire and its people. It is found that the key to British understanding was acquiescence to British influence, even if this was against the wishes of the Irish people. It is the main contention of this thesis that, because of non-acquiescence, the Second World War was the point when Britain psychically ejected ‘Irishness’ from its national identity, casting the Irish as irredeemably ‘other’, even before Ireland seceded from the Commonwealth. It is also concluded that due to influence of this ejection, for many Eire, though neutral, was perceived as if she were an enemy to Britain.

scholarly journals Spesialisering eller samvirke? Om skulptur og arkitektur i gjenreisnings- og vekstårene etter andre verdenskrig

Nordlit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Svein Aamold
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Artistic Values ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Walter Gropius ◽  
Second World

<p>One of the characteristics of modernist art and architecture is the insistence on autonomy. What happens if the two media are combined? Will they activate new artistic values – or will their insistence on individual autonomy lead to a differentiation which negates any true dialogue bearing on their status as works of art? These questions are discussed with references to sculptures by Georg Kolbe, Antoine Pevsner, Barbara Hepworth, Jean Arp, Arnold Haukeland and Ramon Isern; and the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Erling Viksjø. Also central to these topics are the public debates between architects, sculptors and architectural historians in Europe and America during the first decades after the Second World War. The issues regarding a possible integration of sculpture and architecture were highly contested during these years of optimism and economic growth. For some, the idea of a union between the two media proved to be an ideal that was perhaps never fully accomplished. Many sculptors, however, wanted to create works intended for public spaces, whether in architectural urban settings or in landscapes. Among the architects, the opinions differed from a refusal to include any works of art as part of their buildings, to those who involved in collaborative projects with artists. Others maintained that a new spatial unity could be achieved based on joint efforts on equal terms between sculptors and architects.</p>

Hadassah, 1933–1947: Responding to Crisis

Hadassah ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
World War ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Second World

This chapter discusses organizational developments during the Second World War. From 1937 a gradual shift took place in Hadassah's policy that saw it beginning to engage in political activity. A significant contribution was made to this change by David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist workers' leader who would later be considered the architect of the Jewish state. In addition, the rise of Hitler to power in 1933, and the consequent challenge of coping with the problem of the Jewish refugees from Germany, led to an expansion both of Hadassah's activity and of the organization itself. Furthermore, the chapter reveals that Hadassah's political activity in the three years between the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the State of Israel was only part of its overall programme. Another part, which the organization saw as one of its central roles, was the education of its members along Jewish and Zionist lines.

Krigsseilere i fred: De som ble glemt og det som ble husket

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Bjørn Tore Rosendahl
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Search Results ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the Second World War, the merchant fleet and its seafarers represented Norway’s most significant contribution to the Allied war effort. However, lack of recognition has in many ways defined the post-war era of the “war sailors”, as the wartime seafarers are called in Scandinavia. Publicity is a part of recognition, and this article studies in what degree the “war sailors” have received publicity from 1945 to 2019. Using search results from a database of digitized Norwegian newspapers, some clear patterns emerge. The war efforts of the merchant seafarers were not forgotten immediately after the war, but they were not in the limelight. Not long after, the “war sailors” disappeared from the newspaper columns. In connection with the three milestones in the battle of “the secret fund of Nortraship”, they received a short-term increase of publicity. The last decade’s increased publicity seems to be more long-lasting, and it has become honourable to be called a “war sailor”. Gradually, several groups of seafarers have been included in the term and are now remembered as “war sailors”. This is partly a result of the need for visibility and recognition for forgotten groups of wartime seafarers.

Die Bauhäusler Franz Ehrlich und Fritz Ertl

Architectura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 76-118
Author(s):  
Klaus Tragbar
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
World War ◽  
Construction Company ◽  
State Security ◽  
Walter Gropius ◽  
Second World

Abstract The Bauhaus not only had the period of its existence in common with the Weimar Republic, but also many of its internal social, cultural and political contradictions. These contradictions become clear through the biographies of two Bauhaus graduates, Franz Ehrlich (1907 –1984) and Fritz Ertl (1908 –1982), who both studied with Hannes Meyer at the Bauhaus Dessau. After graduating, Ehrlich joined the KPD and worked with Walter Gropius and Hans Poelzig. In 1934, he was arrested as a resistance fighter and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the Second World War, he became one of the most distinguished architects and furniture designers in the GDR and worked for the State Security. He died in 1984. Ertl returned to his father’s construction company in Linz after receiving his diploma. In 1938 he joined the NSDAP and the SS and was involved in the planning of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from 1940 onwards. After the end of the war, he worked again as an architect and building contractor in Linz. In 1972 he was charged and acquitted in the Vienna Auschwitz Trial. He died in 1982.

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