Main entry:

Ziada, Hazem.

Title & Author:

Gregarious space, uncertain grounds, undisciplined bodies : the Soviet avant-garde and the "crowd" design problem / by Hazem Ziada.

Publication:

[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : UMI Dissertation Services, ©2011.

Description:

xxx, 504 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Committee Chair: Bafna, Sonit; Committee Member: Lewcock, Ronald; Committee Member: Mcleod, Mary; Committee Member: Peponis, John; Committee Member: Wang, Wilfried.
Reproduction of thesis (Ph. D)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011.
Reproduction of thesis (Ph.D)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011.
Also available online.

Summary:

This thesis proposes a theoretical framework for spatial inquiry into conditions of radical social gregariousness, through probing the crowd design problem in the work of the Soviet Rationalist architects (1920s-30s) - particularly their submissions to the Palace of Soviets competition (Moscow 1931-3). Legitimizing the crowd construct as an index of collective consciousness, and examining the early-modern revolutionary crowd's struggles for proclaiming its self-consciousness, this thesis investigates the interwar political phenomenon of amassing large crowds within buildings as a device for constructing collective social relations.

Subject:

Public architecture.
Collective behavior.
Crowds.
Socialist realism and architecture Soviet Union.
Mass Behavior
Architecture publique.
Comportement collectif.
Foules.
Réalisme socialiste et architecture URSS.
Socialist realism and architecture.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Theses.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278597
Call No.: BIB 214182
Status: Available