Title & Author:

Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Description:

xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Historical perspectives: Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow anarchists / Catherine Cooke -- The Vesnins' Palace of Labour: the role of practice in materialising the revolutionary architecture / Catherine Cooke -- Notes for a manifesto / Jonathan Charley -- A postmodern critic's kit for interpreting socialist realism / Augustin Ioan -- pt. 2. Architecture and change: History lessons / Fredric Jameson -- Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change / Andrew Benjamin -- The state as a work of art: the trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland / Renata Salecl -- Architecture of revolution? / Neil Leach -- pt. 3. Strategies for a new Europe: Traces of the unborn / Daniel Libeskind -- Resisting the erasure of history: Daniel Libeskind interviewed by Anne Wagner -- The humanity of architecture / Dalibor Vesely -- Disjunctions / Bernard Tschumi -- The dark side of the domus: the redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe / Neil Leach -- Architecture in post-totalitarian society: round-table discussion conducted by Bart Goldhoorn -- pt. 4. The Romanian question: Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, semio-clinical files / Constantin Petcu -- The People's House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox / Doina Petrescu -- Utopia 1988, Romania; post-utopia 1995, Romania / Dorin Stefan -- Rediscovering Romania / Ioana Sandi -- pt. 5. Tombs and monuments: Berlin 1961-89: the bridal chamber / Neil Leach -- Reflections on disgraced monuments / Laura Mulvey -- Attacks on the castle / Hélène Cixous.

Resources:
Table of contents
Kostenfrei
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415139147 (hbk.)
9780415139144 (hbk.)
0415139155 (pbk.)
9780415139151 (pbk.)
9780203208335
0203208331

Subject:

Architecture Europe, Central History 20th century.
Architecture Europe, Eastern History 20th century.
Architecture Europe, Central Public opinion.
Architecture Europe, Eastern Public opinion.
Architecture Europe centrale 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe de l'Est 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe centrale Opinion publique.
Architecture Europe de l'Est Opinion publique.
Architecture Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture Public opinion
Bouwkunst.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Europe, Central.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Europe, Eastern.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle Europe centrale.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle Europe de l'Est.
Central Europe
Eastern Europe

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Leach, Neil.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203800
Call No.: NA958 .A745 1999
Status: Available