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Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970-1990

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Author/EditorKlein, Lidia (Author)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781032016573
Pub Date31/03/2023
BindingPaperback
Pages152
Dimensions (mm)246(h) * 174(w)
Political Postmodernisms shows how postmodern architecture in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People's Republic undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history.
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Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970–1990 shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history. It focuses specifically on postmodern architecture, which is traditionally understood as embodying the flippant and apolitical aesthetics of capitalist affluence. By investigating postmodern architecture’s manifestations in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic, the book argues for a new account that incorporates the political roles postmodernism plays when seen in a global perspective.

The book has three goals. First, it challenges the familiar narrative regarding postmodern architecture as following the “cultural logic of late capitalism”, as a socially conservative project, or as “the new corporate style” of neoliberalism in the Reagan era. Second, it fills in portions of Chilean and Polish architectural history that have been neglected by Chilean and Polish architectural historians themselves. Third, it shows how architecture can work as a political form – serving propagandistic purposes and functioning as part of oppositional projects. It focuses particularly on what “dissent” can mean in architecture – an enterprise that is always an expression of authority structures as its manifestation depends upon state approval or support.

Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970–1990 shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history. It focuses specifically on postmodern architecture, which is traditionally understood as embodying the flippant and apolitical aesthetics of capitalist affluence. By investigating postmodern architecture’s manifestations in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic, the book argues for a new account that incorporates the political roles postmodernism plays when seen in a global perspective.

The book has three goals. First, it challenges the familiar narrative regarding postmodern architecture as following the “cultural logic of late capitalism”, as a socially conservative project, or as “the new corporate style” of neoliberalism in the Reagan era. Second, it fills in portions of Chilean and Polish architectural history that have been neglected by Chilean and Polish architectural historians themselves. Third, it shows how architecture can work as a political form – serving propagandistic purposes and functioning as part of oppositional projects. It focuses particularly on what “dissent” can mean in architecture – an enterprise that is always an expression of authority structures as its manifestation depends upon state approval or support.

Lidia Klein is an Assistant Professor in Architectural History at the School of Architecture, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, specializing in global contemporary architecture. She earned her first Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw in Poland in 2013 and her second from Duke University in 2018. Prior to joining UNCC in 2018, Klein was awarded a Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Grant to the AAHVS Department at Duke (2010-2011) and was a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale School of Architecture (2016). Her book projects include the single-author study Living Architectures: Biological Analogies in Architecture of the End of the 20th Century (Warsaw: Fundacja Kultury Miejsca, 2014, in Polish) and the edited books Transformation: Polish Art, Design and Architecture after 1989 (Warsaw: Fundacja Kultury Miejsca, 2017, in Polish) and Polish Postmodernism: Architecture and Urbanism (Warsaw: 40000 Malarzy, 2013, in Polish).

Acknowledgements Introduction The "Rise" and "Fall" of Postmodern Architecture and Urbanism The Apolitical Legacy as Culminating in Postmodern Revivalism Chilean and Polish Postmodernism Recent Scholarship on Postmodernism Outline 1. Postmodernism and the State in Pinochet's Chile 1.1. From Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet: Transformations in Urban Space 1.2. Postmodern Architecture as Propaganda: Plaza de la Constitucion and Congreso de Chile 2. Postmodernism Against the State Under Pinochet's Dictatorship 2.1. The Origins of CEDLA and Its Emergence in Santiago 2.2. CEDLA's Project for Santiago Poniente 2.3. Social Housing 2.4. Dissent and Compliance 2.5. Chile's Distinctive Postmodernism 3. Socialist Postmodernism in the Polish People's Republic 3.1. Postmodern Architecture and Propaganda in the Polish People's Republic 3.2. Architektura 3.3. Na Skarpie Estate (Centrum E) 4. Postmodernism and Dissent in Socialist Poland 4.1. Oppositional Postmodernism: Czeslaw Bielecki and the DiM Group 4.2 Reforming the System from Within: Marek Budzynski and the Legacy of Socialist Realism 4.3. North Ursynow: City, Church, and Continuity 4.4. Poland's Distinctive Postmodernism Conclusion: Postmodernism as a Political Form Appendix: Interviews Humberto Eliash, August 23, 2016 Pedro Murtinho, August 30, 2016 Pedro Murtinho, September 1, 2016 Pilar Garcia, September 1, 2016 Cristian Boza, September 5, 2016 Fernando Perez Oyarzun, September 6, 2016 Humberto Eliash, September 7, 2016 Fernando Perez Oyarzun, September 12, 2016 Marta Lesniakowska, June 5, 2017 Czeslaw Bielecki, June 9, 2017 Romuald Loegler, July 1, 2017 Wojciech Szymborski & Ludwika Borawska Szymborska, July 26, 2021 Bibliography

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