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Form-Trans-Inform: the ‘poetic’ resistance in architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2008

Helen Stratford ,
Doina Petrescu  and
Constantin Petcou
Helen Stratford
Affiliation:
73 Carter StreetFordham, Ely, CambridgeshireCB7 [email protected]
Doina Petrescu
Affiliation:
School of ArchitectureArts TowerUniversity of SheffieldWeston BankSheffield S10 2TN, [email protected]
Constantin Petcou
Affiliation:
atelier d'architecture autogerée15 rue Marc Séguin75018 [email protected]
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In Nicolae Ceausescu's ‘Systematisation’ programme, implemented across Romania throughout the 1980s, power was played out in acts of building. The city of Bucharest provided a visible symbol of the centralisation of authority, manifest in the construction of the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism and the House of the People. Beginning from this historical context, this paper revisits the work of one group of student architects in Romania, Form-Trans-Inform, who used spatial practices to question orthodoxies in architecture around them as protests against repressions under the monolithic Ceausescu regime.

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theory
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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