Description: Further DetailsTitle: Building SocialismCondition: NewSubtitle: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban VietnamISBN-10: 1478010010EAN: 9781478010012ISBN: 9781478010012Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/20/2020Description: Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh’s mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility and the quick fall of Vinh’s new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam’s first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 839gAuthor: Christina SchwenkelGenre: Architecture & AntiquesTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Building Socialism
Title: Building Socialism
Subtitle: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
ISBN-10: 1478010010
EAN: 9781478010012
ISBN: 9781478010012
Release Date: 11/20/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Name: Building Socialism : the Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, History / Contemporary (1945-), Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 29.7 Oz
Author: Christina Schwenkel
Subject Area: Architecture, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
