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No. 13 (1) (2022): After Socialist Modernism. Architecture, urban design and planning of the 1980-s

This publication is the outcome of the project that took place in 2021-2022 in Kyiv. It focuses on the still underexplored issues of architecture and urban planning of the 1980s.
It was during this period that the processes that affect urban realities of modern/ist cities and will determine them in the coming years were formed: the humanization of urban planning, 'postmodernization' of architectural forms, regulation of historical zones, and the plurality of actors who entered the scene of urban planning.
We open this topic to Ukrainian readers and share with the international community the experiences of Kyiv, Lviv, and various countries of the Socialist Bloc.

Published: 2023-07-09

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Acknoledgements

  • Acknowledgements

    Oleksandr Anisimov
    5

Foreword

  • Foreword

    Yulia Lytvynets, Arūnas Gelūnas
    6-8
  • Introduction: Situating the Socialist Postmodern

    Svitlana Shlipchenko
    19-29

Kyiv on the edge of the times. Architecture, self-governing and urban planning

  • Happy Incidents Happen: Ukrainian RadModern (SovietModern) in the Architecture of the Late 1950s and Early 1990s

    Andriy Puchkov
    32-75
  • On the System of Architecture

    Semen Tutuchenko
    77-83
  • In Search for a General Theory of Socialist Architecture

    Yurii Yevreinov, Ninel’ Trykash
    85-98
  • System of Knowledge

    Abram Marder
    101-109
  • Researching the 1980s competitions in Kyiv – preconditions of the After Socialist Modernism

    Oleksandr Anisimov
    110-194

Situating 1980-s: urban planning and architecture. Contexts

  • From Frame to Environment: Discussing the Development of Lviv during the 1980s

    Natalia Otrishchenko
    198-213
  • The Language of Mass Architectural Postmodernity

    Dimitrij Zadorin
    214-232
  • Reclaiming Identity: The Postmodern Turn in the Vilnius Architecture of the 1980s

    Marija Drėmaitė
    234-251
  • Gained in Translation. Postmodern Architecture in Late Soviet Lithuania

    Martynas Mankus
    252-272

Cases

  • 4 Blocks in Podil: Kyiv’s Response to the Crisis of Modernist Planning

    Shlipchenko Shlipchenko, Oleksandr Anisimov
    276-307
  • Centre E Estate in Krakow’s Nowa Huta. The postmodern experiment in the heart of the Stalin era symbol

    Michał Wiśniewski
    308-332
  • The Old Town of Elbląg, a Postmodern Historic Monument

    Urban Florian
    334-351
  • Context and continuity. Shifting paradigms in East German urban planning and architecture in the city of Halle (Saale)

    Kirsten Angermann
    352-367

Interview

  • A Ugandan Architect on his Studies in Soviet Kyiv: Lessons of Equality, Environment, Race, and Friendship Stephen Mukiibi in conversation with Oleksandr Anisimov and Łukasz Stanek

    Łukasz Stanek, Oleksandr Anisimov
    371-391
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