ABOUT THIS BOOK

This volume coins the term “Team 10 East” as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries—such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polónyi of Hungary, and Radovan Nikšic of Yugoslavia. This new term allows the book’s contributors to approach these individuals from a comparative perspective on socialist modernism in Central and Eastern Europe and to discuss the relationship between modernism and modernization across the Iron Curtain. In so doing, Team 10 East addresses “revisionism” in state-socialist architecture and politics as well as shows how Team 10 East architects appropriated, critiqued, and developed postwar modernist architecture and functionalist urbanism both from within and beyond the confines of a Europe split by the Cold War.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Lukasz Stanek is the 2011–13 A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and a lecturer at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre of the University of Manchester, UK. He is author of Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory and Postmodernism Is Almost All Right: Polish Architecture After Socialist Globalization.

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“Opens up a new, nuanced perspective onto the established narrative of the transition from CIAM to Team 10.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Team 10 East and Several Other Useful Fictions
Lukasz Stanek, Dirk van den Heuvel

Humanizing Modernism: Oskar Hansen, Charles Polónyi and the Art of Sailing with the Wind

Mapping Opportunities: The International Summer Schools of Charles Polónyi
Levente Polyák

Team 10 and Czechoslovakia: Secondary Networks
Marcela Hanácková

Between CIAM and Team 10: The “East” and the Peripheries of CIAM
Cornelia Escher

Jerzy Soltan and the Art and Research Unit’s Project for the Polish Pavilion at Expo 58
Aleksandra Kedziorek

Helsinki-Warsaw, c. 1960
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Alexis Josic between Yugoslavia and France: Housing the Greatest Number
Jelica Jovanovic

Workers’ University Zagreb: Team 10 Ideas in the Service of Socialist Enlightenment
Renata Margaretic Urlic, Karin Šerman

Zagreb Revisionists: “Social-Standard” Architecture
Maroje Mrduljaš, Tamara Bjažic Klarin

New Belgrade Block No. 22: Order and Freedom
Aleksandar Kušic

The Museum of Modern Art in Skopje and the Potentiality of an Exhibition Space
Aleksandra Kedziorek

Oskar and Zofia Hansen: Me, You, Us and the State
Lukasz Stanek

Photo Credits

Index

Insert: Letter to CIAM Coundil members, Aug. 27, 1957
Oskar Hansen and Jerzy Soltan