Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Contested Mythologies: The Architectural Deconstruction of a Totalitarian Culture
One question facing post-totalitarian countries such as Romania would appear to be the extent to which the creation of a political theocracy is rooted in place or in person, and the extent to which revision of the built environment can deconstruct this. This “political spirituality” may, perhaps, be better described as a network of mythologies, some of which are contemporary myths and memories created to explain or assimilate contemporary events and some of which are more archaic or folkloric but reattached to new contexts of meaning. The 1996 architectural competition, the Bucuresti 2000, in its attempt to reframe the urban and architectural interventions imposed by Ceausescu before his deposition, illuminates the complexity of this goal and the ways in which the entire competition process was informed by the histories and mythologies of Bucharest—in particular, the reality and mythology of trauma.
Contested Mythologies: The Architectural Deconstruction of a Totalitarian Culture
One question facing post-totalitarian countries such as Romania would appear to be the extent to which the creation of a political theocracy is rooted in place or in person, and the extent to which revision of the built environment can deconstruct this. This “political spirituality” may, perhaps, be better described as a network of mythologies, some of which are contemporary myths and memories created to explain or assimilate contemporary events and some of which are more archaic or folkloric but reattached to new contexts of meaning. The 1996 architectural competition, the Bucuresti 2000, in its attempt to reframe the urban and architectural interventions imposed by Ceausescu before his deposition, illuminates the complexity of this goal and the ways in which the entire competition process was informed by the histories and mythologies of Bucharest—in particular, the reality and mythology of trauma.
Contested Mythologies: The Architectural Deconstruction of a Totalitarian Culture
Barris, Roann (Autor:in)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 54 ; 229-237
01.05.2001
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Contested Mythologies: The Architectural Deconstruction of a Totalitarian Culture
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Contested Mythologies: The Architectural Deconstruction of a Totalitarian Culture
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