Magic Blocks
Scenarios for socialist collective housing estates in Bucharest
ed. by Stefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea, Kai Vöckler

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Editor(s)

Stefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea, Kai Vöckler

Publication, year

Bucharest : Zeppelin Association, 2009

Scope

111 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9789730069426

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Launched by Archis Interventions in cooperation with local and international architecture offices and projects, »MAGIC BLOCKS« presents scenarios for the future development and use of housing estates and thereby stimulate public discussion of housing and other social issues in Bucharest. The cityscape of Bucharest is dominated by huge, standardized public housing estates built during the socialist era, mainly in the 1970 and 1980s – in which circa 70 per cent of the city's population still live. These 'concrete curtains' flank established major traffic axes, blocking the view of the parts of Bucharest that lie behind them.

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Location

Cabinet 19 - 5: Ongeplande stad