Budoucnost je skryta v pritomnosti : architektura a ceska politika 1945-1989 = The future is hidden in the present : architecture and Czech politics 1945-1989  The Future is Hidden in the Present: Architecture and Czech Politics 1945-1989 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2457405B

  Author(s)

  Rollova, Veronika

  City

  Prague 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  Czech; English 

  ISBN

  9788088308539 

  Date of Publication

  2021 

  Publisher

  Vysoka skola umeleckoprumyslova  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  471 

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Politics

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Rollová, Veronika

  Publisher

  Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová  

• Description

  The Future is Hidden in the Present: Architecture and Czech Politics 1945-1989 Czechoslovak architecture underwent a radical transformation after the Second World War. New political and social demands were placed on it, its institutional structure was transformed, and current topics and problems were reformulated in architectural circles. The publication focuses on changes in the definition of "socialist architecture", its main tasks and ideas about the form of the built environment of the communist "world of tomorrow" in the period from the mid-1940s to the end of the 1980s. It follows how political representatives, the architects themselves and representatives of other institutions, including construction companies, participated in this process and how their mutual negotiations took place. The focus of the authors of the individual chapters is not on changes in forms or construction procedures or the fate of specific personalities, but rather on the ways in which architects responded to changing social tasks and in which they tried to actively influence them.