The Prudent Optimism of the Late Normalisation Period: Architects in the 1980s Seeking Alternatives to Transcend the Uniformity of the Time Cover Image

Opatrný optimismus pozdní normalizace: Architekti v osmdesátých letech hledali alternativní cesty, jak vykročit za hranice dobové uniformity
The Prudent Optimism of the Late Normalisation Period: Architects in the 1980s Seeking Alternatives to Transcend the Uniformity of the Time

Author(s): Petr Vorlík
Subject(s): Architecture, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: normalisation period; architects; Czechoslovakia; 1980s ;

Summary/Abstract: For us, the architecture of the 1980s is usually associated with a wash of brown, leatherette furniture and bleak grey concrete apartment blocks. But is this picture complete? Wasn’t there perhaps something different, something more interesting happening outside the purview of our personal recollections? After all, every era has a considerable proportion of more ambitious artists striving to rise above the everyday average

  • Issue Year: XVI/2022
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 21-33
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech