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Moderns Abroad
Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Av Mia Fuller
Häftad, 2009
851 kr
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This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design …
Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Av Iain Borden, Barbara Penner m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1014 kr
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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct …
Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by transnational migration but the physical manifestations of migration in architecture – and its effect on streetscape, neighbourhood and city – have …
Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital
Av Hilton Judin
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative …
Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital
Av Hilton Judin
Häftad, 2021
668 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative …
Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938–1968
Av Ana Miljacki
Häftad, 2020
743 kr
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The Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia’s entrance into World War II, and the …
Urban Phantasmagorias
Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest
Inbunden, 2023
2517 kr
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Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly …
Urban Phantasmagorias
Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest
Häftad, 2023
634 kr
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Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly …
Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland
Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements—this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period, …
Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland
Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity
Häftad, 2020
638 kr
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Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements—this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period, …
Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Av Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus
Inbunden, 2001
2904 kr
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, …
Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Av Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus
Häftad, 2001
1170 kr
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Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, …
Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Av Iain Borden, Barbara Penner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2517 kr
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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct …
Architecture of Oppression
The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
Inbunden, 1999
2592 kr
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This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the …
Moderns Abroad
Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Av Mia Fuller
Inbunden, 2006
2592 kr
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This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design …
Spaces of Global Cultures
Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
Av Anthony King
Inbunden, 2004
2592 kr
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This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a …
Spaces of Global Cultures
Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
Av Anthony King
Häftad, 2004
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1254 kr
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This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a …
Architecture of Oppression
The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
Häftad, 1999
1254 kr
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This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the …
Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
Av Abidin Kusno
Häftad, 2000
849 kr
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In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that …
Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
Av Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2517 kr
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Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private …
Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
Av Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
1041 kr
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Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private …
Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
Inbunden, 2003
2517 kr
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Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the …
Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
Häftad, 2003
926 kr
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Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the …
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
Häftad, 2003
1014 kr
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To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is …
Beyond Description
Singapore Space Historicity
Av Ryan Bishop, John Phillips m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1254 kr
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This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about …
Indigenous Modernities
Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
Häftad, 2005
954 kr
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This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of …
Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Av Peter Scriver, Vikramaditya Prakash
Inbunden, 2007
3980 kr
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A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various …
Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Av Peter Scriver, Vikramaditya Prakash
Häftad, 2007
1078 kr
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A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various …
Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
Av Kim Dovey
Häftad, 2007
942 kr
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Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the …
Visualizing the City
Av Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann
Inbunden, 2008
3082 kr
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This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural …
