Author: Arlene R. KrivPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
World War II and the U.S. Army Mobilization Program
Author: Arlene R. KrivPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Department of Defense Management of Historic and Historic-eligible Facilities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Readiness SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Fort McCoy Family Housing Project, Monroe County, Jackson County, Juneau County, Vernon County
Author: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Author: Military Construction Appropriations for 2002
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Military Construction Appropriations for 2002: Overview: OSD, Army, Navy and Air Force
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2013
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
World War II and the American Dream
Author: Margaret CrawfordPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262510837
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
with essays by Peter S. Reed, Robert Friedel, Margaret Crawford, Greg Hise, Joel Davidson, and Michael Sorkin Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this most notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed, Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, details the rise of modern architecture during the war -- housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped popularize modernism as the appropriate image of American industrial might and corporate success. Robert Friedel, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, documents the development of new materials, especially plastics, and discusses techniques for employing traditional materials in novel ways. Margaret Crawford, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, explores the struggle of women and blacks for public housing. Greg Hise, Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, considers how the construction of large-scale residential communities near defense plants prefigured postwar suburbia. Joel Davidson, historian of the "World War II and the American Dream" exhibition, analyzes the impact of the war's building program on the postwar military-industrial complex. Finally, Michael Sorkin, architect and writer, explores the migration of certain values and aesthetics from the necessities of war to the choices of peace. Among these are images of speed, camouflage, ruin, totalization, and flight. Copublished with The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
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