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Title Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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 politicians alike in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider how best to formulate the new architecture for a new Europe. A fundamental part of the problem for Central and Eastern Europe as it struggles to adapt to the West has been the issue of the built environment. The buildings inherited from the communist era have brought with them a range of problems: some are environmentally inadequate, others were designed to serve a now redundant social programme, and others carry the stigma of association with the previous regime. Whilst the physical rehabilitation of towns and cities is a pressing problem, there are important underlying theoretical issues to be addressed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Leach, Neil
LC no. 98026183
ISBN 9780203208335
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