Abstract
In the last few years,industrial architecture has started to attract more attention than probably ever before.In order to pursue the issue of growing aesthetic interest in the industrial landscape I analyse contemporary visual representations of industrial landscape in the Czech Republic.Discussing the case of an industrial brownfield in Kladno I try to show how the industrial architecture is in fact aestheticised.By questioning what lies behind such aestheticisation I want to show how industrial landscape and the past it embodies have been negotiated within the urban space.I perceive the visual as well as discoursive representations of industrial architecture as predominantly melancholic and nostalgic.My argument is,however,that nostalgia does not have to present a weakness since it originates in the image we hold of our past and it embodies our fears about our future.It can thus serve as a position from which we could critically question our present-day existence and our potential futures.