Abstract
Architecture and urban development of the 1960s and 1970s in Eastern Europe is usually only briefly dealt with in publications. It is said that after the intermezzo of Socialist Realism, construction engineering was, after 1960, determined by the design principles of modernism. It is also emphasized that the pathos of the Stalinist period was followed by a mundane, productivist, even technocratic period characterized by the fulfilment of planning objectives, which found its adequate expression in the grey mass of „Plattenbauten“.
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Moravánszky, á. (2008). The grand gesture. In: Eastmodern. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71532-1_18
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