Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970-1990

ISBN-13: 9781032016542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 168 str.

Lidia Klein

Opis

Political Postmodernisms shows how postmodern architecture in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction  The "Rise" and "Fall" of Postmodern Architecture and Urbanism  The Apolitical Legacy as Culminating in Postmodern Revivalism  Chilean and Polish Postmodernism Recent Scholarship on Postmodernism  Outline  1. Postmodernism and the State in Pinochet’s Chile  1.1. From Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet: Transformations in Urban Space  1.2. Postmodern Architecture as Propaganda: Plaza de la Constitución and Congreso de Chile  2. Postmodernism Against the State Under Pinochet’s Dictatorship  2.1. The Origins of CEDLA and Its Emergence in Santiago  2.2. CEDLA’s Project for Santiago Poniente  2.3. Social Housing  2.4. Dissent and Compliance  2.5. Chile’s Distinctive Postmodernism  3. Socialist Postmodernism in the Polish People’s Republic  3.1. Postmodern Architecture and Propaganda in the Polish People’s Republic  3.2. Architektura  3.3. Na Skarpie Estate (Centrum E)  4. Postmodernism and Dissent in Socialist Poland  4.1. Oppositional Postmodernism: Czesław Bielecki and the DiM Group  4.2 Reforming the System from Within: Marek Budzyński and the Legacy of Socialist Realism  4.3. North Ursynów: City, Church, and Continuity  4.4. Poland’s Distinctive Postmodernism  Conclusion: Postmodernism as a Political Form  Appendix: Interviews  Humberto Eliash, August 23, 2016  Pedro Murtinho, August 30, 2016  Pedro Murtinho, September 1, 2016  Pilar Garcia, September 1, 2016  Cristián Boza, September 5, 2016  Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, September 6, 2016  Humberto Eliash, September 7, 2016  Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, September 12, 2016  Marta Leśniakowska, June 5, 2017  Czesław Bielecki, June 9, 2017  Romuald Loegler, July 1, 2017  Wojciech Szymborski & Ludwika Borawska Szymborska, July 26, 2021  Bibliography

O autorze

Lidia Klein is an Assistant Professor in Architectural History at the School of Architecture, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, specializing in global contemporary architecture. She earned her first Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw in Poland in 2013 and her second from Duke University in 2018. Prior to joining UNCC in 2018, Klein was awarded a Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Grant to the AAHVS Department at Duke (2010–2011) and was a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale School of Architecture (2016). Her book projects include the single-author study Living Architectures: Biological Analogies in Architecture of the End of the 20th Century (Warsaw: Fundacja Kultury Miejsca, 2014, in Polish) and the edited books Transformation: Polish Art, Design and Architecture after 1989 (Warsaw: Fundacja Kultury Miejsca, 2017, in Polish) and Polish Postmodernism: Architecture and Urbanism (Warsaw: 40000 Malarzy, 2013, in Polish).