Re-Framing Identities Architecture’s Turn to History 1970-1990

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Re-Framing Identities Architecture’s Turn to History 1970-1990 Volume 3

From 1970–1990, architecture experienced a revision as part of the post-modern movement. The critical attitude to the functionalistic Moderne style and the influence of semiotics and philosophical trends, such as phenomenology, on architectural theory led to an increased interest in its history, expression, perception, and context. In addition, architectural heritage and the care of architectural monuments gained importance.

This development also increasingly challenged the ideologically based division between East and West. Instead of emphasizing the differences, the search was for a joint cultural heritage. The contributions in this volume question terms such as “Moderne” and “post-modern

I. Identity Construct(ion)s

• Piercing the Wall: East-West Encounters in Architecture 1970–1990 / Moravánszky Ákos
• Notes on Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Bloc Architectures / Stanishev Georgi / Stanishev Georgi
• An Image and Its Performance: Techno-Export from Socialist Poland / Stanek Łukasz
• Postmodern Architectural Exchanges Between East Germany and Japan / Hirsh Max
• Being Underground: Dalibor Vesely Phenomenology and Architectural Education during the Cold War / Bedford Joseph
• From the Hungarian Tulip Dispute to a Post-Socialist Kulturkampf / Kiss Daniel

II. The Turn to History

• Russia Europe America: The Venice School between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. /
  Ockman Joan
• Deconstructing Constructivism / Vronskaya Alla
• The (New) Concept of Tradition: Aldo Rossi’s First Theoretical Essay / Schnell Angelika
• Paolo Portoghesi and the Postmodern Project / Micheli Silvia / Szacka Léa-Catherine
• “Keep Your Hands Off Modern Architecture”: Hans Hollein and History as Critique in Cold War Vienna

III. Public Criticism and the Rediscovery of the City

• Heritage Populism and Anti-Modernism in the Controversy of the Mansion House Square Scheme / Rosso Michela
• Preservationism Postmodernism and the Public across the Iron Curtain in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main / Demshuk Andrew
• “Le Monopole du Passéisme”: A Left-Historicist Critique of Late Capitalism in Brussels / Loosen Sebastiaan
• Keeping West Berlin “As Found”: Alison Smithson Hardt‑Waltherr Hämer and 1970s Proto‑Preservation Urban Renewal / Warda Johannes
• Humane Spontaneity: Teaching New Belgrade Lessons of the Past / Stevanović Tijana
• Quality of Life or Life-in-Truth? A Late- Socialist Critique of Housing Estates in Czechoslovakia / Krivý Maroš
• Appendix Notes on Contributors Index

336 pages 145 colour illustrations / 16 5 x 24 5 cm / English