V. Molnár Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Post-War Central Europe. 2013 Routledge 210 pp. £70.00 (hardback)
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The Department offers a five-year program leading to the Bachelor of Architecture degree. The program provides opportunities for general education as well as preparation for professional practice and/or graduate study.
The Department of Architecture offers two graduate degrees in architecture: a three-year accredited professional degree (MArch) and a two-semester to three-semester research degree (MS in Arch). Double-degree programs are currently offered with the Department of Community and Regional Planning (MArch/MCRP) and the College of Business (MArch/MBA).
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The Department of Architecture was established in 1914 as the Department of Structural Design in the College of Engineering. The name of the department was changed to the Department of Architectural Engineering in 1918. In 1945, the name was changed to the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. In 1967, the name was changed to the Department of Architecture and formed part of the Design Center. In 1978, the department became part of the College of Design.
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1914–present
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- Department of Structural Design (1914–1918)
- Department of Architectural Engineering (1918–1945)
- Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering (1945–1967)
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- College of Design (parent college)
- College of Engineering(previous college, 1914–1978)
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Abstract
Postwar architecture in Communist Europe has a reputation for ugliness, shoddy construction, and, through its very existence, complicity with the regimes. Scholars of the built environment have been slow to initiate research on the topic because of judgments about the quality of the architecture itself, as well as an aversion to the politically charged discourse around it. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary book, sociologist Virág Molnár works against these perceptions and decisively argues that our understanding of Communism in Europe must include an analysis of the ‘transformation of the built environment,’ since this transformation ‘was politically mobilized in the service of social change, first in socialist modernization and then in the post-socialist transition’ (p. 3).
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Zarecor, Kimberly Elman, “V. Molnár Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Post-War Central Europe. 2013 Routledge 210 pp. £70.00 (hardback),” The British Journal of Sociology 66 (2015): 394–395, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12130. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.