Ministry of highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi /

Ministry of highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi /

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Imprint:Warsaw : Other space foundation ; Utrecht : Casco ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, c2013.
Description:216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language:English
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.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9919952
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Other authors / contributors:Warsza, Joanna, editor.
ISBN:9783943365726
3943365727
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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