The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture: Bucharest, 1949–1964

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Methodological framework
	Notes
Part 1: The rise of the socialist city
	Reassessing the capital
	Systems of planning and control
	The socialist reconstruction of Bucharest
	Floreasca and the cvartal, 1954–1959
	The apartment building
	Floreasca and the microraion, c. 1963
	Towers in a garden
	Looking south: the apartment block versus the bourgeois house
	Looking into the distance: photographing Floreasca
	Notes
Part 2: Type and typification
	Soviet (and German) origins
	Early typification in Romania
	Types, between constancy and variation
	Type and building technology I: prefabrication
	Type and building technology II: confluences
	Elevating types
	Type and building technology III: a conclusion
	Notes
Part 3: Peasant houses and workers’ apartments
	Romanian folk architecture
	Type before typification
	The village and the city
	From type to typification: the model village of Dioști
	The Village Museum after 1948: a socialist repertoire of folk types
	From sociology to history
	Obsolescence versus progress
	Archetypes: building the socialist primitive
	The modernism of the peasant house
	Collective creation, collective experience
	From the peasant house to the worker’s apartment
	Conclusion: for a unified theory of socialist type
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archives
	Selected publications
Index