LEADER 04463nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781020003321 005 20200403200618.0 010 $a1-282-62780-5 010 $a9786612627804 010 $a1-84545-921-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781845459215 035 $a(CKB)2550000000016694 035 $a(EBL)544431 035 $a(OCoLC)647933072 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12191172 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448743 035 $a(PQKB)10274786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC544431 035 $a(DE-B1597)636148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781845459215 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000016694 100 $a20090219d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndispensable eyesores$b[electronic resource] $ean anthropology of undesired buildings /$fMe?lanie van der Hoorn 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$d2009 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aRemapping cultural history ;$vv. 10 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-530-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [238]-253) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tForeword -- $t1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of ?Corrupt? Architecture -- $t2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings -- $t3. 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M. ? 1 Building, 20,000 People and 450 Kilograms of Explosives: The Elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a Secular Sacrifice -- $t4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo -- $t5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar -- $t6. Consuming the ?Platte? in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture -- $t7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme -- $t8. ?L? like ?Left to Its Own Devices?: The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz -- $t9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience -- $t10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores -- $t11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks -- $tEpilogue. Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aCollapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of ? and yet cannot do without ? have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal the significance of architectural eyesores for the people who live or work in or near them. After exploring various approaches to building lives and deaths, the author presents a rich variety of undesired edifices in Germany, Hungary, Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina and investigates the different methods used to dispose of them: eliminating, damaging, transforming or ?reframing? them, abandoning them to progressive dilapidation or virtually rejecting them. Discarding an edifice, however, need not bring its social life to an end. This analysis continues with a reflection on the afterlife of unwanted buildings, and concludes with a discussion on the life expectancy of buildings, their multi-sensory materiality and ?thingly? agency. 410 0$aRemapping cultural history ;$vv. 10. 606 $aArchitecture and anthropology 606 $aArchitecture$xHuman factors 606 $aAbandoned buildings 606 $aArchitecture and society 615 0$aArchitecture and anthropology. 615 0$aArchitecture$xHuman factors. 615 0$aAbandoned buildings. 615 0$aArchitecture and society. 676 $a303.4 676 $a306.4/6 676 $a306.46 700 $aHoorn$b Me?lanie van der$01555153 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781020003321 996 $aIndispensable eyesores$93816819 997 $aUNINA