Learning from What? The Czechoslovak Debate on the Architecture of the Capitalist West in 1957

Abstrakt

The paper, published in Festschrift for Mary McLeod, professor at Columbia GSAPPat Columbia University, examines theme of the "westernization" of the architecture of the countries of the Soviet bloc after 1956. According to the ideologists of the communist regimes in late 1950s, architecture had remain a socialist one and had be protected against decadent influences of the capitalist West.

Some architects, however, wanted produce the same modern architecture as it was in Western countries. It is interesting to ask whether the famous Czechoslovak pavillion for Expo 1958 in Brussels was the example of the socialist or the West-like architecture.

Klíčová slova

• Modern architecture
• Cold War
• communist ideology
• „westernization“
• Expo 1958