Second world postmodernisms : architecture and society under late socialism /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Kulić, Vladimir, editor.
ISBN:9781350014442
1350014443
9781350014428 (epdf)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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