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7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Foreword ix
- 1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of ‘Corrupt’ Architecture 1
- 2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings 11
- 3. 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M. – 1 Building, 20,000 People and 450 Kilograms of Explosives: The Elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a Secular Sacrifice 39
- 4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo 58
- 5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar 80
- 6. Consuming the ‘Platte’ in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture 99
- 7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme 120
- 8. ‘L’ like ‘Left to Its Own Devices’: The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz 138
- 9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience 153
- 10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores 171
- 11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks 191
- Epilogue. Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency 202
- Notes 214
- Bibliography 238
- Index 255
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Foreword ix
- 1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of ‘Corrupt’ Architecture 1
- 2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings 11
- 3. 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M. – 1 Building, 20,000 People and 450 Kilograms of Explosives: The Elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a Secular Sacrifice 39
- 4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo 58
- 5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar 80
- 6. Consuming the ‘Platte’ in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture 99
- 7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme 120
- 8. ‘L’ like ‘Left to Its Own Devices’: The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz 138
- 9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience 153
- 10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores 171
- 11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks 191
- Epilogue. Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency 202
- Notes 214
- Bibliography 238
- Index 255