Ministry of highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi / edited by Joanna Warsza.

Title & Author:

Ministry of highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi / edited by Joanna Warsza.

Publication:

Warsaw : Other space foundation ; Utrecht : Casco ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, c2013.

Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Caucasus highlights -- Introducing the ministry of highways -- Artists, architects, researchers and engineers in context -- Read before you go -- Getting there and away.

Summary:

Once described as 'Italy gone Marxist,' Georgia, located on the Black Sea, enjoys a sun-soaked Mediterranean climate in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Its recent architectural history both informal and vernacular but also sanguinely futurist reveals the uncanny progressive potential of a place where the past is neither monumentalized nor destroyed, but built upon. This palimpsestic legacy embodied in the stunning Ministry of Highways (1975) government complex in Tbilisi is explored in this whimsical guidebook to the hilly Georgian capital. With contributions from Ruben Arevshatyan, Didier Faustino, Yona Friedman, Lali Pertenava, Marjetica Potrc, Richard Reynolds, Slavs and Tatars, Jan Verwoert and others.

ISBN:

9783943365726 (paperback)
3943365727 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture and society Georgia (Republic) Tʻbilisi.
Art and architecture Georgia (Republic) Tʻbilisi.
Communism and architecture Georgia (Republic) Tʻbilisi.
Architecture and society
Art and architecture
Communism and architecture
Georgia (Republic) Tʻbilisi

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Warsza, Joanna, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285965
Call No.: BIB 225994
Status: Available

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