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fromwhatSołtanandhisteamimaginedinearlypost-
StalinistPolandforthePolishPavilionatExpo
58inBrussels,describedbyAleksandraKędziorek.The
searchforanalternativetothehousingneighborhoods,
astheywerebuiltinsocialistCzechoslovakia,resulted
inurbanstructuresthatparalleledtheworkofCandilis-
Josic-Woods.Inparticular,theirreinterpretationsofthe
traditionalEuropeancitywereguidedbyarenewed
architecturallanguage.Anexampleofsuchanapproach
wastheprojectforLiberec’slower-towncenter
byMiroslavMasákandhisteam,analyzedhere
byMarcelaHanáčková,whichintegratedanewurban
structureintotheoldfabricofthetownbymeans
ofdifferentiatedscalesofurbanexperience,spatial
complexityandamixtureofurbanfunctions.Alsofor
Polónyi,theTeam10principleof“minimalintervention”
seemedappropriateforurbanizationschemesthat
respectedanddevelopedexistingsettlementpatterns,
socialstructuresandlocalcharacteristicsinthe
countrysideofsocialistHungary,asdiscussedbyLevente
Polyák.
Alltheseproposalswereformulatedwithinthe
specificinstitutional,economic,socialandintellectual
conditionsofstatesocialisminPoland,Hungary,
YugoslaviaandCzechoslovakia.Theywereoftencritical
ofthewaysinwhichseveraltenetsofmodernismhad
beenmobilizedbysocialistregimeswithinmodernization
programssincethe1950s.This“realexistingmodernism”
38wastheimmediatecontextfortheworkofthe
protagonistsofthisbook,whocontested,challengedand
revisedtheserealizations,andsuggestedalternatives.
Ratherthanpostulatingthatmodernismshould
beabandoned,theyexploreditspotentialitywithin
asharedandinterlinkedsetofreferences,concepts,
imagesandexperiences,andbythisexplorationthey
expandedthesetinquestion.Inthesediscussions,the
linesbetweenarchitecture,policyandpoliticswere
almostimmediatelyintersected,sincepoliticalactors
determinedtheproductionofspaceinsocialiststates.
