hansen

Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, „Oskar Hansen—Opening Modernism” analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Hansen, who was the Polish member of Team 10, a group of architects that challenged standard views of urbanism more than fifty years ago. In chronicling the impact of Hansen’s theory...

This volume coins the term „Team 10 East” as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries―such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polónyi of Hungary, and Radovan Nikšic of Yugoslavia. This new term allows the book’s contributors to approach these individuals from a comparative perspective on socialist modernism in Central and Eastern Europe...