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ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONTitle: Historical Constructions of the User in the Romanian Socialist Apartment, 1968-1989
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Title Historical Constructions of the User in the Romanian Socialist Apartment, 1968-1989
AbstractIn the context of profound standardization, the golden age of state housing construction inRomania of the 60s and 70s, generated a built environment that became the research terrain for theoutstanding interdisciplinary research collaboration between architecture and sociology in mid 70sand early 80s. In 1976 this partnership, which was rooted into an ongoing intellectual partnershipbetween sociology and architecture, and sanctioned by the communist system from its beginnings,was finally embedded in what was at the time the motherboard of standardized housing design andarchitecture, the Romanian Design Institute of Standardized Constructions. The housing design
production and architecture within this institute was partly the outcome of post-occupancy empiricalsociological inquiry. Architects and historians alike often neglect this intellectual partnership throughwhich professionals involved in housing production attempted to understand residents way ofdwelling, housing aspirations, interior housing unit adaptations and space appropriations and at abigger scale, their demographic structure of families, migration, and others factors of urbanization.
The historical investigation I propose here would unravel the ways in which throughout the socialistperiod in Romania, the development of the architecture profession must be also comprehendedthrough the ways in which the idea of the user was constructed and the way the user as resident,inhabitant and citizen, participated directly or indirectly in the design and construction of housingneighborhoods. In this paper I argue that during late socialism, the user was not just a fixed,institutionally created entity, whose actions were determined by the built environment and controlledby a rigid political system. The users interventions, space adaptations, space negotiations wererecovered by the sociological and architectural intellectual partnership and re-inscribed in the
practice of architecture and housing production of the early 80s due to the interdisciplinary nature ofthe state architectural institutions.
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Affiliations (1) UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Authors Ioana Chinan () Presenting
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Categories Preserving and Repurposing Social Housing: Pitfalls and Promises
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