Modern (város)építészet az erdélyi széleken, a végeken. Új település(rész), új (köz)tér és épület a történeti tájban
Modern (Urban) Architecture on the Transylvanian Margins: New Settlements, New Public Spaces, and Buildings in the Historical Landscape

Summary/Abstract: The study introduces the modernist architectural aspirations of the wider Transylvanian region by examining some of its most notable achievements in urban planning. The theoretical foundation for these projects was laid by several documents of the Modern Movement from the interwar period, most visibly in the activities of CIAM. Positioned between the two capitals – Bucharest and Budapest – and influenced by their respective agendas of self-representation, urban planning concepts emerged that profoundly transformed the architectural and urban character of a traditional region situated on the periphery. Although these new achievements later contributed to the experience of socialist urban planning, they were rooted in entirely different economic and social conditions and embodied a distinctly different built quality. For this reason, they can be regarded both as the last representatives of a bygone era and as the first expressions of a new, emerging tradition.

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