Architecture in Global Socialism

2020-01-14 Architecture

Author : Łukasz Stanek
Release : 2020-01-14
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Architecture in Global Socialism by : Łukasz Stanek

Download or read book Architecture in Global Socialism written by Łukasz Stanek. This book was released on 2020-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction Worldmaking of Architecture -- Chapter 2 A Global Development Path Accra, 1957-66 -- Chapter 3 Worlding Eastern Europe Lagos, 1966-79 -- Chapter 4 The World Socialist System Baghdad, 1958-90 -- Chapter 5 Socialism within Globalization Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, 1979-90 -- Epilogue and Outlook -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Image Credits.

Socialist Architecture

2017 Architectural photography

Author : Srdjan Jovanović Weiss
Release : 2017
Genre : Architectural photography
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Download or read book Socialist Architecture written by Srdjan Jovanović Weiss. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialist Architecture ? The Reappearing Act' is a cooperation between the architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and the photographer Armin Linke. Since 2009, Jovanovic Weiss and Linke are documenting the current state of selected places of socialistic architecture in the former Yugoslavia. After the disappearing of Yugoslavia, the inherited architecture often remained empty, in a kind of limbo between reutilisation and modern archaeological ruin. This documentation considered this indecisiveness in the five emerging democracies and investigates the relative impact on the spatial perception and the fate of the former ideological architecture of Yugoslavia.

Spatial Revolution

2022-02-15 History

Author : Christina E. Crawford
Release : 2022-02-15
Genre : History
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Download or read book Spatial Revolution written by Christina E. Crawford. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929. Among the revelations provided by Christina E. Crawford is the degree to which outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex, while facing difficult topographies, near-impossible deadlines, and inchoate theories of socialist space-making. Crawford describes how early Soviet architecture and planning activities were kinetic and negotiated and how questions about the proper distribution of people and industry under socialism were posed and refined through the construction of brick and mortar, steel and concrete projects, living laboratories that tested alternative spatial models. As a result, Spatial Revolution answers important questions of how the first Soviet industrialization drive was a catalyst for construction of thousands of new enterprises on remote sites across the Eurasian continent, an effort that spread to far-flung sites in other socialist states—and capitalist welfare states—for decades to follow. Thanks to generous funding from Emory University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture

2018-12-07 Architecture

Author : Juliana Maxim
Release : 2018-12-07
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture written by Juliana Maxim. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism written in English. It examines the mechanisms through which modern architecture was invested with political meaning and, in reverse, how specific architectural solutions came to define the socialist experience. Each of the book’s three parts traces the historical development of one key aspect of Romania’s architectural culture between the years 1949–1964: the planning and construction of housing districts in Bucharest; the role of typification of design and standardization of construction in a project of cultural transformation; the production and management of a folk architectural tradition. Going beyond buildings and architects to consider the use of photography, painting, and novels, as well as narrations of history and the formation of an ethnographic architectural heritage, the author explores how buildings came to participate in the cultural imagination of socialism—and became, in fact, a privileged medium of socialism. Part of the growing interest in the significance of Soviet Bloc architecture, this is an important contribution to the fields of architectural history, cultural history, and visual culture.

Landmarks of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1991

1992 Architecture

Author : Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Ri︠a︡bushin
Release : 1992
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Landmarks of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1991 written by Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Ri︠a︡bushin. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soviet architecture was born and shaped from the outset by dispute..."--from the introductory essay. This catalog documents the architectural output of a country besieged with powerful and conflicting political pressures and aspirations. Text and photos combine to record the architectural heritage of the Communist regime. Translated from the Russian. Lacks an index. 9.5x11" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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