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Gumshoe
is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form is fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In
Mysteriesof a Communist Cave
, the second book in the
Gumshoe
series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer's building for the French Communist Party's (PCF) central committee in Paris.
Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer's PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. Shaw draws out the PCF's language and context one element at a time and puts the elegant curtain-wall building with its cave-like assembly hall into revelatory dialogue with interlocutors in film, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.
Perhaps the ultimate mystery of the communist cave is that its owners have not more often and more powerfully presented their landmark building as the vivid source of imagery it could be for the kind of world the PCF might like to construct.
Gumshoe
is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form is fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In
Mysteriesof a Communist Cave
, the second book in the
Gumshoe
series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer's building for the French Communist Party's (PCF) central committee in Paris.
Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer's PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. Shaw draws out the PCF's language and context one element at a time and puts the elegant curtain-wall building with its cave-like assembly hall into revelatory dialogue with interlocutors in film, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.
Perhaps the ultimate mystery of the communist cave is that its owners have not more often and more powerfully presented their landmark building as the vivid source of imagery it could be for the kind of world the PCF might like to construct.
Lytle Shaw
is Professor of English at New York University and a contributing editor for
Cabinet Magazine
. His books include
The Mollino Set, New Grounds for Dutch Landscape
and
Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie.
He has also published catalogue essays on artists including Gerard Byrne, Zoe Leonard, Robert Smithson and the Royal Art Lodge, and for institutions including the Dia Center for the Arts, the Museo Reina Sofia, and the Drawing Center.
Thomas Weaver
is an architectural writer, educator, and editor based in London. He also lectures at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
Françoise Fromonot
is a professor of design, history, and theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville and William Wayne Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice Architecture Paris.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Architektur |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Gumshoe |
| Inhalt: | 282 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783038604471 |
| ISBN-10: | 303860447X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 03860447 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Shaw, Lytle |
| Redaktion: |
Weaver, Thomas
Fromonot, Françoise |
| Herausgeber: | Thomas Weaver/Françoise Fromonot |
| Hersteller: |
Park Books
Park Books AG |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Postfach 20 21, D-37010 Göttingen, info@gva-verlage.de |
| Abbildungen: | 204 s/w-Abbildungen |
| Maße: | 177 x 112 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lytle Shaw |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.05.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,226 kg |
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