In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City.
Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries—what he calls socialist worldmaking—left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.
Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the Global South.
2 有用 Moly! 2020-11-03 20:18:02
和一开始设想的内容不太一样,但作者的叙述无论从对Architectural mobility的定义还是涉及的地域,均展现出了更大的格局... 最后一章写道在科威特实践的东欧建筑师在90年代海湾战争期间纷纷离开,只是一回去又遇上了东欧剧变,但也出乎意料的是,他们在中东实践获得的诸多经验 - 与私人业主打交道的能力、设计“资本主义” 消费建筑的知识以及对最新的电脑绘图和建造技术的掌握,也使得他们在随后... 和一开始设想的内容不太一样,但作者的叙述无论从对Architectural mobility的定义还是涉及的地域,均展现出了更大的格局... 最后一章写道在科威特实践的东欧建筑师在90年代海湾战争期间纷纷离开,只是一回去又遇上了东欧剧变,但也出乎意料的是,他们在中东实践获得的诸多经验 - 与私人业主打交道的能力、设计“资本主义” 消费建筑的知识以及对最新的电脑绘图和建造技术的掌握,也使得他们在随后的市场化浪潮中比更多的同行迅速地站稳了脚跟... 真是令人唏嘘.... (展开)
0 有用 TTTTTTTra 2022-04-06 04:00:53
冷战分界线两边阵营中少有人研究的一边
0 有用 拾贝岛民 2023-02-14 12:33:54 中国香港
一流学者,扎实研究。这本书,现在被引为此一题材的样板写法。
0 有用 拾贝岛民 2023-02-14 12:33:54 中国香港
一流学者,扎实研究。这本书,现在被引为此一题材的样板写法。
0 有用 TTTTTTTra 2022-04-06 04:00:53
冷战分界线两边阵营中少有人研究的一边
2 有用 Moly! 2020-11-03 20:18:02
和一开始设想的内容不太一样,但作者的叙述无论从对Architectural mobility的定义还是涉及的地域,均展现出了更大的格局... 最后一章写道在科威特实践的东欧建筑师在90年代海湾战争期间纷纷离开,只是一回去又遇上了东欧剧变,但也出乎意料的是,他们在中东实践获得的诸多经验 - 与私人业主打交道的能力、设计“资本主义” 消费建筑的知识以及对最新的电脑绘图和建造技术的掌握,也使得他们在随后... 和一开始设想的内容不太一样,但作者的叙述无论从对Architectural mobility的定义还是涉及的地域,均展现出了更大的格局... 最后一章写道在科威特实践的东欧建筑师在90年代海湾战争期间纷纷离开,只是一回去又遇上了东欧剧变,但也出乎意料的是,他们在中东实践获得的诸多经验 - 与私人业主打交道的能力、设计“资本主义” 消费建筑的知识以及对最新的电脑绘图和建造技术的掌握,也使得他们在随后的市场化浪潮中比更多的同行迅速地站稳了脚跟... 真是令人唏嘘.... (展开)