Architecture and Ideology.

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Table of contents; preface; part i; general theory of ideologyand architecture; ideology and architecure; post-everything; the ideological functionof architecture in the societyof spectacle; health and architecture; bavarianism; some non-christian religious rootsof 20th century architecture; part ii; power, city and architecture; identity, quiddity and urban places; the kalmyk people colonyand construction of the first buddhisttemple in belgrade and europe(1929-1944); new moscow 4; socially responsible architecture; the procession of the simulacrum; part iii.

Ideology or fashion?contemporary cityand the quest for powerwalking in automobile city, case study; rhetoric of anti-rhetoric; stalinist architectureand stalinist ideology; housing design model within uniquearchitectural complexes in serbiain the sixties in the twentieth century; part iv; the ideology of the visualin contemporary architecture; ideological parallax; the role of contemporaryarchitecture in globalstrategies of city branding; new technologies as new ideologies.

Architecture and Ideology consists of twenty-two essays arranged in four thematic units: Ideological Context of Architecture, City and Power, Morphology and Ideological Patterns, and Designers and Ideology. The subjects that are investigated and elaborated are connected with the influences of different 20th century political and social ideologies on urban development and the architecture of various European cities, from the east and the west. The authors are professors and scientific researc ...

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English.

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