Main entry:

Murawski, Michał, author.

Title & Author:

The Palace Complex : A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed / Michał Murawski.

Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Description:

xxiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

New anthropologies of Europe

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2014, under the title: Palace Complex : the social life of a Stalinist skyscraper in post-socialist Warsaw.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.
The planners : conceiving the Palace complex -- Public spirit, or the gift of noncapitalism -- Designing architectural power : scale, style and location -- Site-specific : Varsovian interpretations of the Palace -- Varsovianization : the Palace complex after 1989 -- "The center of the very center" -- The extraordinary Palace.

Summary:

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was ""gifted"" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.

ISBN:

9780253039941 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253039940
9780253039965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253039967
9780253039996 (ebook)

Subject:

Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie.
Architecture and society Poland Warsaw.
Municipal buildings Poland Warsaw.
Architecture et société Pologne Varsovie.
Bâtiments municipaux Pologne Varsovie.
Architecture and society
Buildings
Municipal buildings
Warsaw (Poland) Buildings, structures, etc.
Poland Warsaw

Form/genre:

Theses.

Added entries:

New anthropologies of Europe.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304635
Call No.: BIB 250279
Status: Available