Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach.

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. The book presents a series of essays which offer a novel and incisive take on some of the pressing questions that now face architects, planners and politic...

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Other Authors: Leach, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture > Europe, Central > 20th century.
Architecture > Europe, Eastern > 20th century.
Architecture > Europe, Central > Public opinion.
Architecture > Europe, Eastern > Public opinion.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture
Architecture > Public opinion
Bouwkunst.
Architecture moderne > 20e siècle > Europe centrale.
Architecture moderne > 20e siècle > Europe de l'Est.
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Historical perspectives: Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow anarchists / Catherine Cooke
  • The Vesnins' Palace of Labour: the role of practice in materialising the revolutionary architecture / Catherine Cooke
  • Notes for a manifesto / Jonathan Charley
  • A postmodern critic's kit for interpreting socialist realism / Augustin Ioan
  • pt. 2. Architecture and change: History lessons / Fredric Jameson
  • Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change / Andrew Benjamin
  • The state as a work of art: the trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland / Renata Salecl
  • Architecture of revolution? / Neil Leach
  • pt. 3. Strategies for a new Europe: Traces of the unborn / Daniel Libeskind
  • Resisting the erasure of history: Daniel Libeskind interviewed by Anne Wagner
  • The humanity of architecture / Dalibor Vesely
  • Disjunctions / Bernard Tschumi
  • The dark side of the domus: the redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe / Neil Leach
  • Architecture in post-totalitarian society: round-table discussion conducted by Bart Goldhoorn
  • pt. 4. The Romanian question: Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, semio-clinical files / Constantin Petcu
  • The People's House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox / Doina Petrescu
  • Utopia 1988, Romania; post-utopia 1995, Romania / Dorin Stefan
  • Rediscovering Romania / Ioana Sandi
  • pt. 5. Tombs and monuments: Berlin 1961-89: the bridal chamber / Neil Leach
  • Reflections on disgraced monuments / Laura Mulvey
  • Attacks on the castle / Hélène Cixous.

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