bokomslag Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe
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Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

Virag Molnar

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  • 210 sidor
  • 2013
The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey faade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent. Examining how social change is closely intertwined with transformations of the built environment, this volume focuses on the relationship between architecture and state politics in postwar Central Europe using examples from Hungary and Germany. Built around four case studies, the book traces how architecture was politically mobilized in the service of social change, first in socialist modernization programs and then in the postsocialist transition. Building the State does not only offer a comprehensive survey of the diverse political uses of architecture in postwar Central Europe but is the first book to explore how transformations of the built environment can offer a lens into broader processes of state formation and social change.
  • Författare: Virag Molnar
  • Illustratör: black and white 2 Tables 6 Line drawings, black and white 34 Halftones black and white
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780415622936
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 210
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-03-25
  • Förlag: Routledge