Zigeunerpaläste. Die Architektur Der Roma in Rumänien
Romani Studies › Vol. 19 Nbr. 1, June 2009
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For Graef the Gypsy palace is a public building, not in the sense that it is open to everybody, but in contrast to the European model of the nuclear family's private house; "private" in the Roma context is an "unacceptable concept for the self-identification of the individual" (p. 125). [...] there remain some unanswered questions, such as "Why have the Gypsy palaces become so prominent while no architect has ever reflected on the architectural language of the Kalderash tends or the Roma caravans?", and "Are tents and caravans not to be considered as architectural expressions of a lifestyle and, if so, who defines that?" Further, tents and caravans shape(d) everyday life and public spaces all over Europe without, however, being noticed as a cultural contribution to cities and places.
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Zigeunerpaläste. Die Architektur Der Roma in Rumänien
Zigeunerpaläste. Die Architektur der Roma in Rumänien. Rudolf R. Graef. 2007 Cluj Napoca: Interferente. Rumänische Akademie. Zentrum für Siebenbürgische Studien. 153 pp. isbn 978-3-7784-21-6
First of all, what makes this little book so readable? Ifs a sentence in the third part which draws our attention to the work's main thesis: "The dissociation ...See the full content of this document
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