The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab; an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation; Europe; modernity and the past in a divided continent. Examining how social change is closely intertwined with transformations of the built environment; this volume focuses on the relationship between architecture and state politics in postwar Central Europe using examples from Hungary and Germany. Built around four case studies; the book traces how architecture was politically mobilized in the service of social change; first in socialist modernization programs and then in the postsocialist transition. Building the State does not only offer a comprehensive survey of the diverse political uses of architecture in postwar Central Europe but is the first book to explore how transformations of the built environment can offer a lens into broader processes of state formation and social change.
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