Mysteries of a Communist Cave: Oscar Niemeyer’s PCF building lifestyle Simone Dede Ayivi

Simone Dede Ayivi

like Sophie Ristelhueber in Lebanon and Kuwait

In conversation with curator Felix Hoffmann

and interactive exercises with architects

We even think it’s good to live as long as possible

Mysteries of a Communist Cave: Oscar Niemeyer’s PCF building lifestyle Simone Dede AyiviIn Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the Gumshoe series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyers building for the French Communist Partys (PCF) central committee in Paris. Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyers PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist