In the interwar period, various European countries saw attempts to turn the building of houses from a craft-based endeavor to industrialized machine production. One of these attempts was the Oceľový dom [Steel House] company in Bratislava, formed in the late 1920s to produce prefabricated steel-frame houses. Drawing upon strong ambition and powerful industrial backing, and […]
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Tracing the Housing Frontline: The Post-Socialist Legacy of Housing Policies in Bucharest during the 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, the construction of large housing complexes in Romania, particularly in the capital city of Bucharest, reached its peak as a result of urban systematization policies. The impact of built densification in those decades can be measured on the socio-economic scale of consequences after the 1990s, less in terms of architectural […]