Jewish
designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries
where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power. This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons influenced and
reformed the design of towns and cities through commercial buildings, urban landscaping and other material culture. It also
examines how modern identities evolved in the context of migration, commercial and professional networks, and in relation
to the conflict between nationalist ideologies and international aspirations in Central Europe and beyond.
Pointing
to the production within cultural platforms shared by Jews and Christians, the book's research sheds new light on the importance
of integrating Jews into Central European design and aesthetic history. Leading historians, curators, archivists and architects
present their critical analyses further to 'design' the past and push forward a transformation in the historical consciousness
of Central Europe. By reconsidering the seminal role of Central European émigré and exiled architects and designers in shaping
today's global design cultures, this book further strengthens humanistic, progressive and pluralistic cultural trends in Europe
today.
Biography
Elana Shapira is a cultural and design historian. She is
the Project Leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project "Visionary Vienna: Design and Society 1918-1934" and Lecturer
in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.
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