L'urbanisme et l'architecture des villes d'Europe centrale pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle
2008
Early 20th-century Central Europe is a territory defi ned,
not by national borders, but by an intricately interwoven
network of transnational metropoles – of modernizing cities
– that were the principal arenas of public culture in the
Habsburg Empire and the successor states that followed it.
The multinational urban societies of Central Europe generated
distinctive architectural ideas and techniques of
city-making. But the polycentric network and vital urban
culture it had fostered disappeared in the wake of World
War II and the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
With the binary division of Cold War Europe, the
Central European city as an object of study also disappeared
from the scholarly agenda of modern architectural
history. From 1945 to 1990, research on Central European
modernism was bifurcated along clearly defi ned geopolitical
and ideological lines. Scholarship produced in the West
was largely Vienna-centric, focused on the cosmopolitan
architectural culture of the imperial capital. In the East, the
focus was on the territories contained by the East Bloc and
on the “struggle for national autonomy” as it played out
in the architectural discourses and projects of the former
Empire’s national groups.
With the fall of communism in Europe, information
and ideas once again circulated freely throughout the
region, and the history of Central European modern architecture
and urbanism began to be rewritten. The new
post-1990 perspectives are changing not only the architectural
history of the region, but also the master narratives
of international modernism. In the last decade, new
topics of research focusing on territorial regimes, border
conditions, temporal and spatial continuities, institutional
structures, and the condition of transition itself are generating
new historiographical and critical methodologies for
understanding the city and modern architecture in Europe
as a whole.
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