ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between architectural transformations and the reshaping of memory in post-imperial urban space. It reflects on two forms of symbolic violence: first, iconoclastic acts of reshaping space to reflect national self-determination and moving away from empire, and second, acts that embody the recovery of imperial legacies. It analyzes the recent restoration of the Habsburg-built Alba Iulia citadel in the eve of Romania’s Centennial celebrations of the 1918 Alba Iulia assembly which proclaimed the unification of Transylvania with Romania. It interrogates the intentionality of architectural transformations and how this heritage project expresses the frictions between memory narratives centred on the nation and forms of imperial duress and nostalgia. It traces how the after-lives of empire materialize in the built environment, as they do in the attitudes and yearnings of the cultural elite. Moreover, it reflects on parallels between European post-imperial and Global South post-colonial nation-building.

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改写为石头：国家神圣的帝国遗产

摘要本文探讨了帝国时代后城市空间中建筑转型与记忆重塑之间的关系。它反映了两种形式的象征性暴力：第一，重塑空间以反映国家自决并脱离帝国的破坏行为，第二，体现了恢复帝国遗产的行为。它分析了在罗马尼亚1918年阿尔巴尤利亚议会百年庆典的前夕，哈布斯堡建造的阿尔巴尤利亚城堡最近的修复，该大会宣布特兰西瓦尼亚与罗马尼亚统一。它询问了建筑改造的意图，以及这个遗产项目如何表达以国家为中心的记忆叙事与帝国胁迫和怀旧形式之间的摩擦。它追溯了帝国的来世如何在建筑环境中实现，就像它们在文化精英的态度和向往中一样。此外，它反映了欧洲后帝国时代与全球南方后殖民时代国家建设之间的相似之处。