The Palace Complex : A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed /

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was ""gifted"" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factorsthat allow Warsaw's Palace to...

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Autor principal: Murawski, Michał (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie.
Municipal buildings.
Buildings.
Architecture and society.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Municipal buildings > Poland > Warsaw.
Architecture and society > Poland > Warsaw.
Poland > Warsaw.
Warsaw (Poland) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The planners : conceiving the Palace complex
  • Public spirit, or the gift of noncapitalism
  • Designing architectural power : scale, style and location
  • Site-specific : Varsovian interpretations of the Palace
  • Varsovianization : the Palace complex after 1989
  • "The center of the very center"
  • The extraordinary Palace.

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