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van Saksencoburg, Albert I. KU Leuven
Koning Albert I (1875-1934) werd aan de vooravond van en tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog geconfronteerd met een radicaliserende Vlaamse beweging. De communautaire kwestie groeide daardoor uit tot een van de centrale problemen van zijn koningschap.
Предвестники современности. Центрально-Восточная Ев-ропа и подъем архитекторов-модернистов. 1910–1950 KU Leuven
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these ...
Staging Authority: Introduction KU Leuven
The Social Promise of Scientific Progress: Technical Experts and the Quest for Authority KU Leuven
This chapter sketches the conditions under which a new type of expert was able to gain public authority in the nineteenth century. It examines the development of a new techno-scientific space, established and demarcated by expanded institutions of research and learning, nation-building, the technification of cities, and the rise of mass media. The chapter argues that the media provided a prime stage on which to acknowledge the power of ...
Geopolitiek en economische uitwisseling. Het fordisme als globaal fenomeen in de jaren `30 KU Leuven
henry ford was niet alleen de producent van het legendarische model t. er is ook een heel industrieel stelsel naar hem genoemd: het fordisme. zijn ideeën dienden als inspiratiebron voor diverse autoritaire regimes uit het europese interbellum, waaronder zowel nazi-duitsland als sovjet-rusland, die ondanks hun substantiële verschillen toch een aantal dynamieken deelden. in beide landen probeerden de experten ter plekke, en de politici die hen ...
The Syrkus couple and the global cause of modernism KU Leuven
This article discusses the role of modernist architects in Poland during the first half of the twentieth century. The article argues that against the background of economic catching-up processes and the establishment of a new nation state and capital, modernist architects could enter into a close relationship with the modernising state. This relationship could partially survive World War II, albeit under different auspices. By employing the ...
Modernist architects and the age of extremes in Eastern Europe, 1920-1950: Introduction KU Leuven
This article demonstrates the social and political impact of modernist architects in Europe’s age of extremes beyond the narrower confines of architecture. In East Central Europe with its ideological tensions, massive socio-political ruptures and eventually the establishment of communist regimes, architects’ social visions and the states’ aspirations led to intense interactions as well as strong controversies. In order to unravel these, we ...