From Construction to Deconstruction. The Heritage of Post-War Modern Mass Housing

Nicola Belli

doi:10.2478/aup-2020-0014

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From Construction to Deconstruction. The Heritage of Post-War Modern Mass Housing

Architecture and Urban Planning

Volume 16 (2020): Issue 1 (January 2020)

By: Nicola Belli

Open Access

|Mar 2021

Abstract

The aim of the study is to find out to what extent dominant ideologies of post-war decades shaped modern mass housing and to engage a discussion about potential heritage of the phenomenon. Analysis is based on the district of Lazdynai (Vilnius). The paper is committed to demonstrate that transition, considered by Tunbridge & Ashworth as a factor of dissonance in heritage, made messages and meanings embedded in mass housing obsolete, and in some cases even undesirable.

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