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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leach, Neil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Europe, Central--20th century.

Architecture.

Architecture--Europe, Eastern--20th century.

Architecture--Europe, Central--Public opinion.

Architecture--Europe, Eastern--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma

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 / Helene Cixous.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-77164-9

0-203-28849-1

1-134-77165-7

1-280-06691-1

0-203-20833-1

9780203208335

OCLC:

437082273