Wilson Center Experts
Greg Castillo
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley
Wilson Center Project(s):
Building Stalin’s Germany: Ideology, Identity, and Reconstruction in the G.D.R., 1946-1956
Term:
May 01, 1998
Jun 01, 1998
Project Summary
analyzes the transfer of Soviet urbanism to East Germany as a program to transform not only war-torn cities, but the national and class identities of their inhabitants as well. Stalinist neoclassicism; Soviet Bloc architecture
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Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design
May 18, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
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Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design
May 18, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Greg Castillo, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley will discuss his latest book, an in-depth history of how domestic goods and environments were exploited on both sides of the Iron Curtain to promote either capitalism or socialism.