Chapters in this book

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