Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

	Author	Virag Molnar
	Isbn	9780415622936
	File size	9MB
	Year	2013
	Pages	224
	Language	English
	File format	PDF
	Category	Architecture

Book Description:

"Molnar shows that whether material construction operates as a "cultural representation", a "cultural medium", or a set of strategies for change is not something that can be answered a priori. By focusing on the same general professional arena over a long period of time and across space, she shows how the "same" arena is transformed as it changes its relation to local and global power structures and histories–– how the material etching of the world emerges simultaneously as an almost "total social fact" and as a powerful way to shape future action. What emerges, then, is a nimble study of culture that truly takes its objects seriously―avoiding easy prefabricated answers, while showing how material culture is brought into action."