Șalaru, M;
An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation: The changing fabric of a Romanian block of flats.
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation is an ethnographic investigation of everyday life in a Romanian apartment block, from its construction in 1974 to the present day. It provides a unique window into how inhabitants, through everyday creative engagements with their apartments, come to terms with the uncertainties of a rapidly changing society, caught in between the vulnerabilities of both socialism and capitalism. The book attends to the micro, day-to-day transformations of individual apartments and the way in which they cumulatively affect ‘larger’ urban changes in Piatra-Neamț, transforming both the urban fabric and the local sense of what defines a good life. This book also provides social scientists with a novel way of thinking about the fundamental relationship between people and buildings, while inviting architects to consider how buildings are transformed in time by their inhabitants. With minute ethnographic detail, Maria Șalaru demonstrates how social order is created and maintained through the materiality of the building.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation: The changing fabric of a Romanian block of flats |
| ISBN-13: | .9781800087972 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087972 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org /10.14324 /111.9781800087972 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Uncaptioned images © Author Introductory chapter illustrations © Irina-Elena Nicolescu Captioned images © Copyright holders named in captions Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons .org /licenses /by -nc /4 .0 /. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: S, alaru, M. 2025. An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation: The changing fabric of a Romanian block of flats. London: UCL Press. https://doi .org /10 .14324 /111 .9781800087972 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | architecture, urban transformation, Romania, apartment block |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206473 |
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