[spectre] Official launch of Architectural Guide CHISINAU

[stefan rusu]

Official launch of Architectural Guide CHISINAU
Location: National Art Museum of Moldova/attic hall, Chisinau, Republic of
Moldova
Address: Str. 31 August 1989, 115
Date: September 21, 4 p.m
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The city of Chisinau, once called the “white city” due to its Soviet
modernist heritage, has undergone tumultuous transformations under the
succession of political regimes that marked the past two centuries. Once
the capital of a gubernia of the Russian Empire, it was then integrated
into the Romanian Kingdom during the interwar period, whereupon it was
annexed and radically transformed into a socialist city after World War II,
finally becoming the capital of an independent state after the collapse of
the Soviet Union.
These different political reconfigurations each introduced new sets of
urban and social codes as well as new policies for urban development, whose
accompanying typologies, styles and functions. The changes of the past one
hundred years were introduced into an underlying urban texture evolved in
the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Densely structured, the historical
nucleus of the city reflects the influences stemming from various stylistic
and ideological contexts: the rectangular layout of the Russian Empire
(1812–1918), the European architectural tradition of the Romanian
administration (1918–40) and the socialist urban planning of the USSR
(1940–1941 and 1944–1992).
The Architectural Guide Chisinau documents the post-war period of the
city’s urban development, which was based on the principles of the
socialist city and was shaped by five distinct tendencies reflected in the
five segments of the guide – the Stalinist Empire, Soviet Modernism,
Postmodernism, Soviet Brutalism, and the Industrial City. Each of these
reflect the essential Soviet mandate to build not only a new city but also
a new society. In addition to the photographic documentation and critical
analysis of socialist architecture, this book also includes essays on the
development of the city between 1945 and 1989; they address the microraions
(micro-districts) as the fundamental cells of Soviet-era urban planning,
recreation areas and public leisure architecture, the industrial
environment, the city’s cinemas, and a brief introduction to the phenomenon
of the turbo-architecture that emerged in the post-Soviet context after the
1990s.
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Waiting to see you at the official launch of the Architectural Guide
together with Vlada Ciobanu, Irina Dubinsky Anastasia Felcher and Vitalie
Sprânceană, a presentation and discussion moderated by Stefan Rusu.
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stefan rusu
email: suhebator at gmail.com
web: http://stefanrusu.net/
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