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Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (Architext) - Hardcover

Book 16 of 30: Architext

Molnar, Virag

 
9780415622936: Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (Architext)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041562293X ISBN 13: 9780415622936
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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 façade 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.

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About the Author

Virág Molnár is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and her work focuses on the politics of the built environment and urban culture.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041562293X
ISBN 13 
9780415622936
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210