Neil Leach (ed.)

Architecture and Revolution

Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
Herausgeber: Leach, Neil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 represent a snapshot of informed opinion on these issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415139144
• ISBN-10: 0415139147
• Artikelnr.: 22095717

Autorenporträt

Leach, Neil

Inhaltsangabe

bPart I. Historical Perspectives. 1. Sources of a Radical Mission in the
Early Soviet Profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow Anarchists. 2. The
Vesnin's Palace of Labour: the Role of Practice in Materialising the
Revolutionary. 3. Notes for a Manifesto. A Postmodern Critic's Kit for
Interpreting Socialist. Part II. Architecture and Change. 5. History
Lessons - Policing the Body: Descartes and the Architecture of Change. 7.
The State as a Work of Art: the Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland - 8.
Architecture or Revolution? Part III. Strategies for a New Europe. 9.
Traces of the Unborn. Resisting the Erasure of History: Daniel Libeskind
Interviewed by Anne Wagner. 11. The Humanity of Architecture. 12.
Disjunctions. 13. The Dark Side of the Domus: The Redomestication of
Central and Eastern Europe. 14. Architecture in a Post-Totalitarian
Society: Round-Table Discussion Conducted by Bart Goldhoorn. Part IV. The
Romanian Question. 15. Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, Semio-Clinical
Files. 16. The People's House, or the Voluptuous Violence of an
Architectural Paradox.17. Utopia 1988, Romania; Post-Utopia 1995, Romania.
18. Rediscovering Romania. Part V. Tombs and Monuments. 19. Berlin 1961-89:
The Bridal Chamber. Reflections on Disgraced Monuments. 21. Attacks on the
Castle. Index.