CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Poenaru, Florin Andrei |
|---|---|
| Title | On Balcony. STATE/CITIZENS INTERSECTION IN A SOCIALIST ROMANIAN BLOC OF FLATS |
| Summary | This paper inquiries into the social functions, meanings and ideologies specific to balconies in the socialist architecture by suggesting that the socialist balcony lies at the intersection between the socialist State and its citizens. For that matter, the first part of the paper examines and contrasts different architectural conceptions that underpinned the functions of balconies from its bourgeois emergence, to Lenin’s revolutionary architecture, Stalinist developments and to Ceausescu’s style, by pinpointing how the official architectural discourse, in general, and balconies, in particular served ideological purposes and expressed the official intersection between State and citizens. The second part of the paper balances the analytic view by scrutinizing the relationship between the state and citizens from the view point of people’s regular balconies, and the everyday practices attached to it, as they unfold in a Romanian neighborhood built in the 1980’s. |
| Supervisor | Judit Bodnar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/poenaru_florin.pdf |
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