“Keep Your Hands Off Modern Architecture”: Hans Hollein and History as Critique in Cold War Vienna

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe 7
4. Introduction 13
5. I. Identity Construct(ion)s
6. Piercing the Wall: East-West Encounters in Architecture, 1970–1990 27
7. Notes on Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Bloc Architectures 45
8. An Image and Its Performance: Techno-Export from Socialist Poland 59
9. Postmodern Architectural Exchanges Between East Germany and Japan 73
10. Being Underground: Dalibor Vesely, Phenomenology and Architectural Education during the Cold War 89
11. From the Hungarian Tulip Dispute to a Post-Socialist Kulturkampf 105
12. II. The Turn to History
13. Russia, Europe, America: The Venice School between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. 121
14. Deconstructing Constructivism 149
15. The (New) Concept of Tradition: Aldo Rossi’s First Theoretical Essay 165
16. Paolo Portoghesi and the Postmodern Project 179
17. Boris Magaš and the Emergence of Postmodernist Themes in the Croatian Modernist Tradition 191
18. “Keep Your Hands Off Modern Architecture”: Hans Hollein and History as Critique in Cold War Vienna 209
19. III. Public Criticism and the Rediscovery of the City
20. Heritage, Populism and Anti-Modernism in the Controversy of the Mansion House Square Scheme 227
21. Preservationism, Postmodernism, and the Public across the Iron Curtain in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main 245
22. “Le Monopole du Passéisme”: A Left-Historicist Critique of Late Capitalism in Brussels 261
23. Keeping West Berlin “As Found”: Alison Smithson, Hardt‑Waltherr Hämer and 1970s Proto‑Preservation Urban Renewal 275
24. Humane Spontaneity: Teaching New Belgrade Lessons of the Past 289
25. Quality of Life or Life-in-Truth? A Late- Socialist Critique of Housing Estates in Czechoslovakia 303
26. Appendix
27. Notes on Contributors 321
28. Index 329