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The Architext series brings 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 will, 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 will be 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.

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A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience

1st Edition

By Jiat-Hwee Chang
April 26, 2016

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military ...

Writing the Global City Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban

Writing the Global City: Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban

1st Edition

By Anthony King
April 22, 2016

Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and ...

City Halls and Civic Materialism Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space

City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space

1st Edition

Edited By Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White
May 01, 2014

The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built ...

Framing Places Mediating Power in Built Form

Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form

2nd Edition

By Kim Dovey
January 31, 2008

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 ...

Behind the Postcolonial Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

1st Edition

By Abidin Kusno
September 01, 2000

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 ...

Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

1st Edition

By Virag Molnar
May 28, 2013

The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

Indigenous Modernities Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

1st Edition

By Jyoti Hosagrahar
December 15, 2005

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 ...

Stadium Worlds Football, Space and the Built Environment

Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment

1st Edition

Edited By Sybille Frank, Silke Steets
July 27, 2010

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, ...

Bauhaus Dream-house Modernity and Globalization

Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization

1st Edition

By Katerina Rüedi Ray
June 02, 2010

A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus – tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and ...

Re-shaping Cities How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

Re-shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Guggenheim, Ola Söderström
January 20, 2010

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 book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different...

Moderns Abroad Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

1st Edition

By Mia Fuller
October 20, 2009

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 ...

Visualizing the City

Visualizing the City

1st Edition

Edited By Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann
March 31, 2008

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 ...

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