Architecture and revolution

Titel: Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / ed. by Neil Leach
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Ausgabe: 1. publ.
Veröffentlicht: London ˜[u.a.]œ : Routledge, 1999
Umfang: XIII, 238 S. : Ill.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0415139147 ; 0415139155
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 9 A ; 60 7 Ua
  • List of illustrations
  • p. ix
  • Notes on contributors
  • p. xi
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xv
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Historical perspectives
  • 1
  • Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow Anarchists
  • p. 13
  • 2
  • The Vesnins' Palace of Labour: the role of practice in materialising the revolutionary architecture
  • p. 38
  • 3
  • Notes for a manifesto
  • p. 53
  • 4
  • A postmodern critic's kit for interpreting socialist realism
  • p. 62
  • Part II
  • Architecture and change
  • 5
  • History lessons
  • p. 69
  • 6
  • Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change
  • p. 81
  • 7
  • The state as a work of art: the trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland
  • p. 92
  • 8
  • Architecture or revolution?
  • p. 112
  • Part III
  • Strategies for a new Europe
  • 9
  • Traces of the unborn
  • p. 127
  • 10
  • Resisting the erasure of history: Daniel Libeskind interviewed by Anne Wagner
  • p. 130
  • 11
  • The humanity of architecture
  • p. 139
  • 12
  • Disjunctions
  • p. 146
  • 13
  • The dark side of the domus: the redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 150
  • 14
  • Architecture in a post-totalitarian society: round-table discussion conducted by Bart Goldhoorn
  • p. 163
  • Part IV
  • The Romanian question
  • 15
  • Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, semio-clinical files
  • p. 177
  • 16
  • The People's House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox
  • p. 188
  • 17
  • Utopia 1988, Romania; Post-Utopia 1995, Romania
  • p. 196
  • 18
  • Rediscovering Romania
  • p. 200
  • Part V
  • Tombs and monuments
  • 19
  • Berlin 1961-89: the bridal chamber
  • p. 209
  • 20
  • Reflections on disgraced monuments
  • p. 219
  • 21
  • Attacks on the castle
  • p. 228
  • Index
  • p. 234