Florian Urban

Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland (eBook, ePUB)

Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Garish churches, gabled slab blocks, neo-historical tenements - this book is about these and other architectural oddities that one would not expect under an authoritarian socialist regime. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars in architectural history, postmodernism, and socialist history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000291971
• Artikelnr.: 60537677

Autorenporträt

Florian Urban is a Professor of Architectural History and Head of History of Architectural and Urban Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He was born and raised in Munich, Germany, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Berlin, an MA in urban planning from UCLA, and a PhD in history and theory of architecture from MIT. He is the author, among others, of Neohistorical East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 (2009), Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing (Routledge, 2012), and The New Tenement: Architecture in the Inner City since 1970 (Routledge 2018). In 2018-19 he was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.