Book Series
Architext
New & Published Titles:
Re-shaping Cities
How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form
This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49291-1 (Routledge)
Moderns Abroad
Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
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…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77985-2 (Routledge)
Visualizing the City
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…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41971-0 (Routledge)
Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form, 2nd Edition
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…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41635-1 (Routledge)
Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70131-0 (Routledge)
Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39909-8 (Routledge)
Indigenous Modernities
Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
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…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32376-5 (Routledge)
Spaces of Global Cultures
Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
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…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19620-8 (Routledge)
Beyond Description
Singapore Space Historicity
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.… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29982-4 (Routledge)
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28361-8 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Architectural discourse has traditionally represented buildings as art objects or technical objects. Yet buildings are also social objects in that they are invested with social meaning and shape social relations. Recognizing these assumptions, the Architext series aims to bring together recent debates in social and cultural theory and the study and practice of architecture and urban design. Critical, comparative and interdisciplinary, the books in the series, by theorizing architecture, bring the space of the built environment centrally into the social sciences and humanities, as well as bringing the theoretical insights of the latter into the discourses of architecture and urban design. Particular attention is paid to issues of gender, race, sexuality and the body, to questions of identity and place, to the cultural politics of representation and language, and to the global and postcolonial contexts in which these are addressed.
Forthcoming Titles:
Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization
By Katerina Rüedi-Ray
To be published April 26th 2010
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
Edited by Sybille Frank, Silke Steets
To be published June 23rd 2010