Naslov
Structuralism in a socialist context; Socially engaged architecture as a space of interaction and communication

Autori
Galjer, Jasna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Caring State and Architecture ; Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries // The Caring State and Architecture ; Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries

Urednik/ci
Galjer, Jasna ; Lončar, Sanja

Izdavač
Hrvatsko etnološko društvo

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
94-116

ISBN
978-953-8232-13-8

Ključne riječi
socially engaged architecture, socialism, structuralism, societal modernisation, Zagreb

Sažetak
Starting from the “complexity and contradiction” of multifunctional architectural complexes for education and culture built during the formative period of “socialism with a human face”, this chapter conceptualises these spaces as actors and vehicles playing a crucial role in knowledge production and the transfer of ideas and ideologies. Through a comparative and critical analysis of case studies of such architectural complexes built in Zagreb from the 1950s to the 1980s, the chapter provides an overview of architectural typology in the context of societal transformation and modernisation. The analysis of formal design concepts and the ways in which buildings were received by the public as spaces of interaction and communication is directed foremost at the issues of the implementation and adoption of programmatic planning and architectural production strategies. The theoretical framework for this is a discourse analysis suitable to address issues of dominant city planning policies transferred from the political, scientific, and cultural fields to architecture. In addition to a factual examination, the chapter explores how these discourses dominated the debate in society during a given period ; it also explores the influence of structuralism in architecture as an expression of social relations. Special attention is thus paid to the communicational aspects of architecture. By adopting a transnational meta- perspective on cultural areas instead of conventional historiography based on binary oppositions between “centres” and “margins”, “East” and “West”, “local” and “global”, or “high” and “low”, the research focuses architectural culture in the context of the European global age as a platform upon which to exchange ideas and dialogue.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti, Etnologija i antropologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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