ABSTRACT
Part 3 expands on the previous part by tracing the genealogy of the notion of architectural type in the intellectual history of Romania beginning in the 1930s. The part locates the first discussions of type and typology in architecture in the sociological investigations of the rural world initiated by Dimitrie Gusti and the Bucharest Sociological School; the part then follows this intellectual tradition into the postwar, where its legacy is carried in the form of ethnographic albums of regional rural architecture and open-air museums of folk buildings and artifacts. In showing how a common concern with architectural type united both ethnographic investigations of the peasants’ past, and the architectural formulations of the workers’ future, the part argues that a certain kind of tradition was constructed alongside socialist modernity.
