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Building Childrens Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

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Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults.

Contemporary urban environments the world over represent the various stages of modernism in architecture. This book reads that history through picturebooks and considers the kinds of national identities and histories they construct.

Twelve specialist essays from international scholars address questions such as: Is modern architecture used to construct specific narratives of childhood? Is it taken to support negative narratives of alienation on the one hand and positive narratives of happiness on the other? Do images of modern architecture support ideas of community? Reinforce family values? If so, what kinds of architecture, community and family? How is modern architecture placed vis-à-vis the promotion of diversity (ethnic, religious, gender etc.)? How might the use of architecture in comic strips or the presence of specific kinds of building in fiction aimed at younger adults be related to the groundwork laid in picturebooks for younger readers?

This book reveals what stories are told about modern architecture and shows how those stories affect future attitudes towards and expectations of the built environment.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 820g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Mar 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367675479

About

Torsten Schmiedeknecht is a Reader in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include the representation of architecture in print media rationalism in architecture and architectural competitions. He is the co-editor of Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal The Rationalist Reader Rationalist Traces An Architects Guide to Fame and Fame and Architecture. In 2016 he was the recipient of an RIBA Research Trust Award for his project The representation of Modern Architecture through illustrations in postwar British Childrens Literature which resulted in a co-authored paper (Absent Architectures: Post-War Housing in British Childrens Picture Books) with Emma Hayward and the exhibition Building Childrens Worlds at RIBA North in Liverpool in Spring 2019.Jill Rudd is a Professor of Literature in the English Department at the University of Liverpool where amongst other things she teaches medieval literature and childrens literature. Chiefly a medievalist with an interest in eco-criticism her publications include Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature (MUP 2007) and various articles and chapters on mice clouds flowers and plants. She has also written on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Secret Garden and in the past on Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short stories. She has supervised postgraduate theses on issue-led childrens literature written for older children readers and young adults.Emma Hayward is a secondary school English teacher and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include curriculum design and 20th- and 21st-century literature in particular the relationship between literature and the built environment verbal-visual narratives and postmodernism/late postmodernism. She has published on childrens literature and the built environment. Her publications include Absent Architectures: Post-War Housing in British Childrens Picture Books 1960-present and Horrible muddy English places: Downriver Swandown and the Mock-Heroic Tradition.

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