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- ISBN 9783868597721
- Weight: 446g
- Dimensions: 165 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2023
- Publisher: JOVIS Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Paperback
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New Belgrade represented a material and social experiment for a new society in post-war Yugoslavia. As the city and the country were being simultaneously built, the philosophy of praxis was developing in both the Yugoslavian and the international scene. Praxis of Collective Building deals with the interactions between this school of thought and the histories of architectural construction sites. By closely studying the microhistories of construction, the author considers the theoretical problems of collective production through different narratives: voluntary youth actions in the construction of New Belgrade through the lens of Marxian praxis, participative prefabrication as a way of addressing housing shortages in Yugoslavia, and the transfer and adaptation of the Yugoslavian prefabricated system to the Cuban context by the microbrigade movement.
Andjelka Badnjar Gojnić is an architect and theorist trained at the faculties of architecture in Belgrade and Barcelona. She is a PhD candidate in the Architekturtheorie department of RWTH Aachen. Her research interests are focused on histories of construction sites as a source for studying collective practices of making and on links between social theories and the collective production of architecture.
