Agata and Elidor offer a series of very insightful reflections on my book, and I am grateful to both of them for their careful and generous reading of the manuscript. I would also like to thank Steve and Daria for … Continue reading
Virág Molnár’s Building the State is compelling, and it aptly demonstrates why there has been such a high degree of academic interest in the built environment and material culture of the former socialist world. Like the best works on the … Continue reading
For a surprisingly long time Central European cities have been perceived, both in the West and in the region itself, as gray, homogenous, and generally uninteresting. Predominantly associated with prefabricated housing and monumental social realist architecture, they have been often … Continue reading
We’re pleased to introduce our discussion of Virág Molnár’s new book, Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (Routledge, 2013). A sociologist by training, Molnár offers an innovative approach to studying socialist architecture
