Book Series
Architext
New & Published Titles:
Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
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… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24814-3 (Routledge)
The Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14346-2 (Routledge)
Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
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… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23615-7 (Routledge)
The Architecture of Oppression
The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
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… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22341-6 (Routledge)
Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17253-0 (Routledge)
Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17368-1 (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:
Re-shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form
Edited by Michael Guggenheim, Ola Söderström
To be published November 27th 2009
Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization
By Katerina Rüedi-Ray
To be published April 22nd 2010
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
Edited by Sybille Frank, Silke Steets
To be published June 1st 2010