Architecture and Revolution Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

Name: Architecture and Revolution Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9780415139151

ISBN-10: 0415139155

ISBN-13: 9780415139151

Edition: 1999

Authors: Neil Leach

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In 1989 Europe witnessed some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century, with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. These original essays address the problems and questions architects, planners and politicians in Central and Eastern Europe have had to consider in formulating a new architecture for a new Europe. The buildings that have been inherited from the communist era bring with them a range of problems, such as environmentally inadequate or structurally unsound architecture, or others, that have been designed to serve a defunct social program. This collection of essays by internationally renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Historical perspectives



Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow Anarchists




The Vesnins' Palace of Labour: the role of practice in materialising the revolutionary architecture




Notes for a manifesto




A postmodern critic's kit for interpreting socialist realism




Architecture and change



History lessons




Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change




The state as a work of art: the trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland




Architecture or revolution?




Strategies for a new Europe



Traces of the unborn




Resisting the erasure of history: Daniel Libeskind interviewed by Anne Wagner



The humanity of architecture




Disjunctions




The dark side of the domus: the redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe




Architecture in a post-totalitarian society: round-table discussion conducted by Bart Goldhoorn



The Romanian question



Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, semio-clinical files




The People's House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox




Utopia 1988, Romania; Post-Utopia 1995, Romania




Rediscovering Romania




Tombs and monuments



Berlin 1961-89: the bridal chamber




Reflections on disgraced monuments




Attacks on the castle



Index