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Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland - Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (Paperback)
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Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland - Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (Paperback)
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Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this
book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged
in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the
decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of
political protest. During that period, committed architects defied
repressive politics and persistent shortages, and designed houses
and churches which adapted eclectic historical forms and geometric
volumes, and were based on traditional typologies. These buildings
show a very different background of postmodernism, far removed from
the debates over Robert Venturi, Philip Johnson, or Prince Charles
in Western Europe and North America-a context in which postmodern
architecture stood not for world-weary irony in an economically
saturated society, but for individualised counter-propositions to a
collectivist ideology, for a yearning for truth and spiritual
values, and for a discourse on distinctiveness and national
identity. Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland argues that
this new architecture marked the beginning of socio-political
transformation and at the same time showed postmodernism's
reconciliatory potential. In light of massive historical ruptures
and wartime destruction, these buildings successfully responded to
the contradictory desires for historical continuity and
acknowledgment of rupture and loss. Next to international ideas,
the architects took up domestic traditions, such as the ideas of
the Polish school of historic conservation and long-standing
national-patriotic narratives. They thus contributed to the
creation of a built environment and intellectual climate that have
been influential to date. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars interested in postmodern architecture and
urban design, as well as in the socio-cultural background and
transformative potential of architecture under socialism.
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