Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity

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Florian Urban, "Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity "
English | ISBN: 0367860724 | 2020 | 226 pages | PDF | 26 MB
Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements―this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period, committed architects defied repressive politics and persistent shortages, and designed houses and churches which adapted eclectic historical forms and geometric volumes, and were based on traditional typologies.

These buildings show a very different background of postmodernism, far removed from the debates over Robert Venturi, Philip Johnson, or Prince Charles in Western Europe and North America―a context in which postmodern architecture stood not for world-weary irony in an economically saturated society, but for individualised counter-propositions to a collectivist ideology, for a yearning for truth and spiritual values, and for a discourse on distinctiveness and national identity.
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