The excerpts below are taken from the book
Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, edited by
Ines Weizman. They represent two types of architecture (if you will): 1) the mass-social housing and the public space/square/playground that surrounds it, and 2) the increasingly tall skyline of a city that aspires to become a consumer-centric metropolis for markets and tourists alike. The reason I'm posting both works (displayed at the Architectural Exhibition of 1978 in Tallinn) is because I find many similarities with the architectural discipline (well, undisciplined architecture) in Albania. I leave these works and words here, not for a comparison - but as a way to open up conversations about the state of architecture (or architecture of state), the socialist and post-socialist public structures, constructs, and the politics and aesthetics of power and powerlessness - and how they reside in and materialize through architecture and lived space.
Part 1. Dissidence through Architecture
The turning point in 1978. Architects of the Tallinn School and their late socialist public.
by
Andres Kurg.
Leonhard Lapin, “The City of the Living-The City of the Dead”, 1978.
“Lapin’s ‘The City of the Living-The City of the Dead’, ironically
commented on the monofunctional housing districts where public areas
were usually left unfinished after the apartment blocks had been put up.
The project placed a cemetery in one of these empty public courtyards
of the micro-districts of panel houses, which usually served as car
parks or areas for dog-walking. Here, however, garages became tombs, and
bodies were buried in cars. The area was also meant to function as a
children’s playground - in this way, as one exhibition review mockingly
put it, people would take better care of the area and parents would not
allow their children to vandalise its equipment (Unt,1978). The drawing,
which was inspired by suprematist aesthetics and based on a view from a
window in Lapin’s own home, included several direct and indirect
allusions to representatives of the architectural elite … who had been
in charge of all three of Tallinn’s mass-housing projects. There was
also a common grave for for the Architects’ Union, and a constructivist
gravestone that marked the ‘future’ resting places of Lapin himself and
his then-wife, the artist Sirje Runge.
”
Leonhard Lapin, “New Skyline of Tallinn”, 1978.
“Lapin’s other work in the exhibition was a simultaneously ironic but
perhaps also utopian proposal for a ‘New Skyline of Tallinn’, which
staged the city as the ‘New York of Estonia’, with several inserted
skyscrapers that recalled Malevich’s ‘architektons’. What, from today’s
viewpoint resembles a prophecy of the city’s future (following the
collapse of the Soviet Union, new high rises of hotels and banks were
constructed all across Tallinn, some of them designed by the former
members of the Tallinn School) was, for the period, an ironic remark on
the growing fascination with consumer products and the practice of
staging the city for tourists. At the same time it demonstrated a desire
for further city growth - a future Tallinn similar to the large
metropolitan centres with structures for international commerce and
leisure rather than a province dependent on the directives received from
Moscow.
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