Main entry:

Hoorn, Mélanie van der.

Title & Author:

Indispensable eyesores : an anthropology of undesired buildings / Mélanie van der Hoorn.

Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Description:

xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Remapping cultural history ; v. 10

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index.
Dragons, tunnels, gold, Russians: Narrative introductions into the Bowels of 'Corrupt' Architecture -- Between pragmatic clearance and pure iconoclasm: theoretical perspectives on the life and death of undesired buildings -- 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M.- 1 building, 20,000 people and 450 kilograms of explosives: the elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a secular sacrifice -- Witnessing urbicide: contested destruction in Sarajevo -- From nuclear waste to a Temple of Consumerism: the recuperation and neutralization of the ex-would-be nuclear power plant in Kalkar -- Consuming the "Platte' in East Berlin: the revaluation of former GDR architecture -- If not clearing, then at least thinking them away: the significance of unrealized proposals and the Viennese Flakturme -- 'L' like 'left to it's own devices': the progressive dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz -- Exorcizing remains: architectural fragments as intermediaries between history and individual experience -- In fond memory of a rejected edifice: reaffirming agency by rehabilitating vanished eyesores -- Eyesores are indispensable: concluding remarks.

Summary:

"The author presents a rich variety of undesired edifices in germany, Hungary, Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina and investigates the different methods used ot dispose of them ... This analysis continues with a feflection on the afterlife of unwanted buildings, and concludes with a discussion on the life expectancy of buildings, their multi-sensory materiality and 'thing-ly' agency."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9781845455309 (alk. paper)
1845455304 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and anthropology.
Architecture Human factors.
Abandoned buildings.
Architecture and society.
Architecture et anthropologie.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Constructions abandonnées.
Architecture et société.
abandoned buildings.
Bauruine
Sozialanthropologie
Verlassenes Haus

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Remapping cultural history ; v. 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264290
Call No.: BIB 195634
Status: Available