Second world postmodernisms : architecture and society under late socialism /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. |
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| Description: | xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11781775 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Discourses
- 1. The retro problem: Modernism and postmodernism in the USSR
- 2. Humanizing the living environment and the late socialist theory of architecture
- 3. The discontents of socialist modernity and the return of the ornament: The Tulip Debate and the rise of organic architecture in post-war Hungary
- 4. An architect's library: Printed matter and PO-MO ideas in Belgrade in the 1980s
- Part 2. Practices
- 5. Bogdan Bogdanovic's surrealist postmodernism
- 6. One size fits all: Appropriating postmodernism in the architecture of late socialist Poland
- 7. Werewolves on Cattle Street: Estonian collective farms and postmodern architecture
- 8. Incomplete postmodernism: The rise and fall of Utopia in Cuba
- 9. Anti-architectures of self-incurred immaturity: A house-spirit in a Plattenbau
- Part 3. Exchanges
- 10. Cultural feedback loops of late socialism: Appropriation and transformation of postmodern tropes for Uran and Crystal in Ceská Lipa
- 11. Mobilities of architecture in the late Cold War: From socialist Poland to Kuwait, and back
- 12. East-east architectural transfers and the afterlife of socialist postmodernism in Japan
- 13. Expanding architectural discourse in early reform-era China, 1978-89
- Postscript: A postmodernist international?
- Index
