Landscapes of Communism : A History Through Buildings

Landscapes of Communism : A History Through Buildings

Hatherley, Owen

Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Fecha de edición junio 2016 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780141975894
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Resumen del libro

"In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies." (Will Self). During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high-rise and vast housing estates an emphatic declaration of a non-capitalist idea.

Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post - Revolution Kiev, the buildings, their most obvious legacy, remain, populated by people whose lives were scattered and jeopardized by the collapse of communism and the introduction of capitalism. Landscapes of Communism is an intimate history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings; it is, too, a book about power, and what power does in cities. Most of all, Landscapes of Communism is a revelatory journey of discovery, plunging us into the maelstrom of socialist architecture.

As we submerge into the metros, walk the massive, multi-lane magistrale and pause at milk bars in the microrayons, who knows what we might find?

Biografía del autor

Escritor y periodista británico. Escribe principalmente sobre arquitectura, política y cultura. Se doctoró con una tesis sobre el constructivismo y el americanismo. En enero de 2019, Hatherley se incorporó a la revista Tribune como editor de su nueva sección de Cultura. Ha publicado los libros 'Militant modernismo', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Trans-Europe Express' y 'The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space'. Ha mantenido tres blogs, Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy, The Measures Taken y Kino Fist. Publica en diversos medios.





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