The Palace complex : a Stalinist skyscraper, capitalist Warsaw, and a city transfixed /

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murawski, Michał (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Series:	New anthropologies of Europe.
Subjects:	Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie. Architecture and society > Poland > Warsaw. Municipal buildings > Poland > Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland) > Buildings, structures, etc.

Table of Contents:

The planners : conceiving the Palace complex
Public spirit, or the gift of noncapitalism
Designing architectural power : scale, style and location
Site-specific : Varsovian interpretations of the Palace
Varsovianization : the Palace complex after 1989
"The center of the very center"
The extraordinary Palace.