162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through... Read more

1. Spatial Violence
Andrew Herscher and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

2. On "Revolutionary Vandalism"
Keith Bresnahan

3. Architecture During Wartime: The Mostra d’Oltremare and Esposizione Universale di Roma
Brian L. Mclaren

4. Sentenced: Architecture of Solitary Confinement
Lisbet Portman, Raphael Sperry, Alberto Estrada Alvarez, Patrick Bearup, Aron Castlin, Ernest Jerome Defrance, Joseph Dole, Carnell Hunnicutt Sr., Baba Yafeu Iyapo-I, Dominic Marak, Ricky D. Matthews, Hector Villegas, Kenny Zulu Whitmore and Willie Worley

5. The Economy of Fear: Oscar Newman Launches Crime Prevention through Urban Design (1969 – 197x)
Joy Knoblauch

6. New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence as De-Socialisation, De-Romanisation, and De-Historisation
Nikolina Bobic

7. Mud, Dust, and Marouge´: Precarious Construction in a Congolese Refugee Camp
Marnie Jane Thomson

8. Encampments: Spatial Taxonomies of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Anoma Pieris

Biography

Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, Department of Art History, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She writes and teaches in the history and theory of art, architecture, and urbanism, focusing on modern Africa and South Asia, spatial practice across borders, and aesthetics and politics of heritage and emergency.