East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990.

East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990. / Volume 3, : Re-Framing Identities ; Architecture's Turn to History, 1970-1990 / / ed. by Ákos Moravánszky, Torsten Lange.

From 1970–1990, architecture experienced a revision as part of the post-modern movement. The critical attitude to the functionalistic Moderne style and the influence of semiotics and philosophical trends, such as phenomenology, on architectural theory led to an increased interest in its history, exp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bedford, Joseph,
Demshuk, Andrew,
Hirsh, Max,
Kiss, Daniel,
Krivý, Maroš,
Lange, Torsten,
Loosen, Sebastiaan,
Micheli, Silvia,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Ockman, Joan,
Rosso, Michela,
Schnell, Angelika,
Stanek, Łukasz,
Stanishev, Georgi,
Stevanović, Tijana,
Szacka, Léa-Catherine,
Vronskaya, Alla,
Warda, Johannes,
Šerman, Karin,
HerausgeberIn:
Lange, Torsten,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:East West Central ; Volume 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe
  • Introduction
  • I. Identity Construct(ion)s
  • Piercing the Wall: East-West Encounters in Architecture, 1970–1990
  • Notes on Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Bloc Architectures
  • An Image and Its Performance: Techno-Export from Socialist Poland
  • Postmodern Architectural Exchanges Between East Germany and Japan
  • Being Underground: Dalibor Vesely, Phenomenology and Architectural Education during the Cold War
  • From the Hungarian Tulip Dispute to a Post-Socialist Kulturkampf
  • II. The Turn to History
  • Russia, Europe, America: The Venice School between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.
  • Deconstructing Constructivism
  • The (New) Concept of Tradition: Aldo Rossi’s First Theoretical Essay
  • Paolo Portoghesi and the Postmodern Project
  • Boris Magaš and the Emergence of Postmodernist Themes in the Croatian Modernist Tradition
  • “Keep Your Hands Off Modern Architecture”: Hans Hollein and History as Critique in Cold War Vienna
  • III. Public Criticism and the Rediscovery of the City
  • Heritage, Populism and Anti-Modernism in the Controversy of the Mansion House Square Scheme
  • Preservationism, Postmodernism, and the Public across the Iron Curtain in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main
  • “Le Monopole du Passéisme”: A Left-Historicist Critique of Late Capitalism in Brussels
  • Keeping West Berlin “As Found”: Alison Smithson, Hardt‑Waltherr Hämer and 1970s Proto‑Preservation Urban Renewal
  • Humane Spontaneity: Teaching New Belgrade Lessons of the Past
  • Quality of Life or Life-in-Truth? A Late- Socialist Critique of Housing Estates in Czechoslovakia
  • Appendix
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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