Indispensable eyesores : an anthropology of undesired buildings / Mélanie van der Hoorn.

List of Illustrations Foreword Chapter 1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of 'Corrupt' Architecture Chapter 2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings Chapter 3. 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M. - 1 Building, 20,000 People and 450 Kilograms of Explosives: The Elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a Secular Sacrifice Chapter 4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo Chapter 5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar Chapter 6. Consuming the 'Platte' in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture Chapter 7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flakturme Chapter 8. 'L' like 'Left to Its Own Devices': The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz Chapter 9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience Chapter 10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores Chapter 11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks Epilogue: Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency Notes Bibliography Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-253) and index.