At School with the Avant-Garde: European Architects and the Modernist Project in England

Autor/inn/en	Grosvenor, Ian; Van Gorp, Angelo
Titel	At School with the Avant-Garde: European Architects and the Modernist Project in England
Quelle	In: History of Education, 47 (2018) 4, S.544-563 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Van Gorp, Angelo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2018.1451559
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Educational Facilities Design; Architecture; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); School Buildings; Immigrants; Refugees; International Organizations; Social Change; War; Philosophy; European History; Cultural Influences; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Architektur; Ausland; Future; Society; Zukunft; School building; Schulgebäude; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Sozialer Wandel; Krieg; Philosophie; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	'New people create new buildings, but new buildings also create New people', so wrote the German art critic Fritz Wichhert in "The New Building: Art as Educator" in 1928. The social and psychological legacy of the First World War was deeply profound and affected how people thought about the future. Children were seen to symbolise a new and better future and Modernist architects saw their role as helping to build a new society, a society where the design of schools was seen as an agent of social change. The focus of this article is on the role of the avant-garde in this reforming social project and its impact on school design. It is organised into four sections. The first section introduces the terms modernism and avant-garde in relation to (school) architecture, particularly British modernism. The second section focuses in on the experiences of émigré architects in conservative 1930s England, and in particular the support they received from refugee organisations and their treatment by the state as war in Europe became a reality. The third section discusses the role of these architects in the construction of modernist schools in England. In the fourth and final section the impact of émigré architects on modernist schools in England is discussed along with the concepts of transnational history and cultural transfer. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01