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Modern Architecture as a Signifier of Political Liberation
Sat, November 23, 2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 4th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon IAbstract
The post-war reconstruction witnessed a vivid building activity in the 1920s with priorities that closely paralleled the new political state of matters. In 1918, Czechoslovakia was founded with a vision of democracy, humanity, social progress, and a distanced attitude to the Catholic denomination. In the leading discourse of the day, the democratic republic was allegedly liberated from the oppressive Austria-Hungary regime. What were the architectural objectives overtly articulated the act of liberation?
