TY - BOOK ID - 58411495 TI - Architecture in global socialism PY - 2020 SN - 9780691168708 0691168709 PB - Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture, Modern KW - Architecture KW - Architecture and society KW - 72.038 KW - 72.038 1 KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 KW - Design and construction KW - History KW - 72.038(6) KW - 72.038(53) KW - Oostblok-architectuur KW - 711.4(C)(6) KW - Ghana, Nigeria, Irak, Koeweit, Verenigde Arabische Ermiraten KW - Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 ; Afrika KW - Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 ; Midden Oosten KW - Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Afrika KW - Architectuur ; tijdens de Koude Oorlog KW - Environmental planning KW - architecture [discipline] KW - urban renewal KW - influence KW - Eastern and Central Europe KW - Abu Dhabi [City] KW - Kuwait KW - Baghdad KW - Accra KW - Lagos KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Socialist realism and architecture KW - Communism and architecture KW - Réalisme socialiste et architecture KW - Communisme et architecture KW - Socialist realism and architecture. KW - Socialisme KW - Europe KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Architecture, Modern - 20th century. KW - Architecture - Europe, Eastern. KW - Architecture - Africa, West. KW - Architecture - Middle East. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58411495 AB - In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Lukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how East European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries-what he calls socialist worldmaking-left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world. Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research in sixteen countries and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the global South. ER -