ABSTRACT
Part 1 spans the history of housing construction in the Floreasca neighborhood in the north of Bucharest between 1956 and 1965. The part follows the transformation of design solutions at various stages of construction in Floreasca in order to map out the larger shifts that Romanian architectural culture underwent in the first decades of socialism. The part considers the design of the apartments, the buildings, and the neighborhood, as well as the representation of new housing in written and photographic sources of the time, in order to trace the formation and development of an architectural culture of socialism. The case of Floreasca serves to illustrate how socialist architecture engaged directly with modernist debates about the planning of the city and representation through architecture.
