Second world postmodernisms : architecture and society under late socialism / edited by Vladimir Kulić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kulić, Vladimir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Postmodern--Former communist countries.

Architecture, Postmodern.

Architecture and society--Former communist countries.

Architecture and society.

Communist aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Summary:

"If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity find their application in the architecture of the socialist Second World? How do we explain the retreat into paper architecture and theoretical discussion in societies still nominally devoted to socialist modernization? Exploring the intersection of two areas of growing scholarly interest - postmodernism and the architecture of the former socialist world - this edited collection stakes out new ground in charting architecture's various transformations in the 1970s and 80s. Fourteen essays together explore the question of whether or not architectural postmodernism had a specific Second World variant. The collection demonstrates both the unique nature of Second World architectural phenomena and also assesses connections with western postmodernism. The case studies cover the vast geographical scope from Eastern Europe to China and Cuba. They address a wealth of aesthetic, discursive and practical phenomena, interpreting them in the broader socio-political context of the last decades of the Cold War. The result provides a greatly expanded map of recent architectural history, which redefines postmodernist architecture in a more theoretically comprehensive and global way."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction, Vladimir Kulic

Part I: Discourses Chapter 1. The Retro Problem: Modernism and Postmodernism in the USSR, Richard Anderson

Chapter 2. Humanizing the Living Environment and the Late Socialist Theory of Architecture, Maroš Krivý

Chapter 3. The Discontents of Socialist Modernity and the Return of the Ornament: The Tulip Debate and the Rise of Organic Architecture in Postwar Hungary, Virág Molnár

Chapter 4. An Architect's Library: Printed Matter and PO-MO Ideas in 1980s Belgrade, Ljiljana Blagojevic

Part II: Practices Chapter 5. Bogdan Bogdanovic's Surrealist Postmodernism, Vladimir Kulic

Chapter 6. One Size Fits All: Appropriating Postmodernism in the Architecture of Late Socialist Poland, Lidia Klein and Alicja Gzowska

Chapter 7. Werewolves on Cattle Street: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture, Andres Kurg

Chapter 8. Incomplete Postmodernism: The Rise and Fall of Utopia in Cuba, Fredo Rivera

Chapter 9. Anti-Architectures of Self-Incurred Immaturity, Alla Vronskaya

Part III: Exchanges Chapter 10. Cultural Feedback Loops of Late Socialism: Appropriation and Transformation of Postmodern tropes for Uran and Crystal in Ceská Lípa, Ana Miljacki

Chapter 11. Mobilities of Architecture in the Late Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait, and Back, Lukasz Stanek

Chapter 12.East-East Architectural Transfers and the Afterlife of Socialist Postmodernism in Japan, Max Hirsh Chapter 13. Defining Reform: Postmodern Architecture in Post-Mao China, 1980-1989, Cole Roskam Postscript A Postmodernist International? Reinhold Martin.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350014459

1350014451

9781350014428

1350014427

9781350014435

1350014435

OCLC:

1082137066