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The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (Architext)

Ana Miljacki

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Description:The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzik and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of Consumption; the award-winning Czechoslovak Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels; and SIAL, a group of architects from Liberec that emerged from the national network of Stavoprojekt offices during the reform years, only to be subsumed back into it in the wake of Czechoslovak normalization. This episodic approach enables a long view of the way that the project of constructing Socialism was made disciplinarily specific for architecture, through the constant interpretation of Socialist lifestyle, both as a narrative framework and as a historical goal.Without sanitizing history of its absurd contortions in discourse and in daily life, the book takes as its subject the complex and dynamic relationships between Cold War politics, state power, disciplinary legitimating narratives, and Czech architects optimism for Socialism. It proposes that these key dimensions of practicing architecture and building Socialism were intertwined, and even commensurate at times, through the framework of Socialist lifestyle."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (Architext). To get started finding The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (Architext), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzik and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of Consumption; the award-winning Czechoslovak Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels; and SIAL, a group of architects from Liberec that emerged from the national network of Stavoprojekt offices during the reform years, only to be subsumed back into it in the wake of Czechoslovak normalization. This episodic approach enables a long view of the way that the project of constructing Socialism was made disciplinarily specific for architecture, through the constant interpretation of Socialist lifestyle, both as a narrative framework and as a historical goal.Without sanitizing history of its absurd contortions in discourse and in daily life, the book takes as its subject the complex and dynamic relationships between Cold War politics, state power, disciplinary legitimating narratives, and Czech architects optimism for Socialism. It proposes that these key dimensions of practicing architecture and building Socialism were intertwined, and even commensurate at times, through the framework of Socialist lifestyle."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (Architext). To get started finding The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968 (Architext), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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