Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces that Reshaped Austria after 1945

IF 0.2 0 ARCHITECTURE
Alexander Bala
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agency of Eastern European architects and planners should not be ignored, who actively employed this discourse of difference to secure new commissions overseas, to claim more resources back home, and to make sense of their deployment abroad. Stanek also characterises Eastern European architectural labour in the Global South as postcolonial. He illustrates how the arrival of Eastern European architects was perceived as offering the hope of breaking the vicious circle of postcolonial underdevelopment in which the damage inflicted by colonial dominance could be undone only with the resources and knowledge from the former colonisers. While a radical break from that circle had not been achieved, Stanek suggests that the presence of socialist design labour certainly complicated the scenarios and offered alternative possibilities. Stanek conceptualises practices of global cooperation between socialist and developing countries as socialist worldmaking, but the conception remains under-developed. While the term “worldmaking” was coined by Nelson Goodman (1978) to conceptualise worlds as malleable constructs based on different views, theories, or workings of the world, Goodman has not been mentioned at all in the book. Édouard Glissant’s notion of worldness (mondialité) is only mentioned in passing. Lacking fuller explication of the notion of worldmaking, the difference between worldmaking and globalisation Stanek seeks to articulate remains obscure. His arguments on socialist worldmaking could be further strengthened by offering more evidence and analysis on its effects from the perspectives of developing societies under study. It would also help to add an assessment on how this contributed to the building of the Soviet Union as a global player in the carefully controlled game of the Cold War through both material and discursive processes. Despite these minor problems, Architecture in Global Socialism makes a significant contribution to both Cold War studies and architectural history. Based on extensive archival research, Stanek offers an insightful and integrative historical investigation into Cold War modernism by showing its global actualisations as continually shifting geometries of multiple determinations and heterogeneous actors among diverse sites. Illustrated with a good range of previously unpublished images and written in an accessible style, this interdisciplinary book will interest both scholars and general readers.
冷战与建筑:1945年后重塑奥地利的竞争力量
东欧建筑师和规划师的机构不应该被忽视,他们积极地利用这种差异的话语来获得海外的新委托,在国内要求更多的资源,并使他们在国外的部署有意义。Stanek还将全球南方的东欧建筑劳工描述为后殖民。他阐述了东欧建筑师的到来如何被视为打破后殖民欠发达的恶性循环的希望,在这种恶性循环中,殖民统治造成的破坏只能用来自前殖民者的资源和知识来消除。虽然从根本上打破这个圈子还没有实现,但Stanek认为,社会主义设计劳动的存在确实使情况复杂化,并提供了替代的可能性。Stanek将社会主义国家和发展中国家之间的全球合作实践概念化为社会主义的世界制造,但这一概念仍然不发达。尽管Nelson Goodman(1978)创造了“世界制造”一词,将世界概念化为基于不同观点、理论或世界运作的可塑结构,但Goodman在书中根本没有被提及。Édouard格里桑特的世界概念(mondialit)只是顺带提到的。由于缺乏对世界形成概念的更充分解释,斯坦内克试图阐明的世界形成与全球化之间的区别仍然模糊不清。从所研究的发展中社会的角度提供更多的证据和分析其影响,可以进一步加强他关于社会主义世界观的论点。它还有助于评估这一过程是如何通过物质和话语的过程,帮助苏联在精心控制的冷战游戏中成为全球参与者的。尽管存在这些小问题,《全球社会主义建筑》对冷战研究和建筑史都做出了重大贡献。基于广泛的档案研究,Stanek对冷战现代主义进行了深刻而综合的历史调查,展示了其全球现实,即在不同地点中不断变化的多种决定和异质行动者的几何形状。插图与一个良好的范围以前未发表的图像和写在一个可访问的风格,这本跨学科的书将感兴趣的学者和一般读者。
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