A volume which focuses on Italian colonialism and its physical manifestations in architectural and urban forms to present new perspectives on colonialism, modernity, nationhood, colonial and Italian architecture and planning and material and symbolic cultures. The book looks at attitudes towards races, religions and cultures by Italian colonizers, exploring cultural dimensions of Italian expansionism and offers a particularly unique focus on a concrete dimension which no other literature has done to date.
A volume which focuses on Italian colonialism and its physical manifestations in architectural and urban forms to present new perspectives on colonial...
Writing Spaces examines and compares discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment between 1960 and 2000, a period in which economies and cultures in the world became ever more interdependent; in which technologies revolutionized production and communications and when the social and spatial organization of built environments and cities were massively transformed. As a response to these developments, social theory has been recast, arguing that space is the medium of social change and hence political struggle. Writing Spaces draws upon these debates. It suggests that research...
Writing Spaces examines and compares discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment between 1960 and 2000, a period in which economies...
Writing Spaces examines and compares discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment between 1960 and 2000, a period in which economies and cultures in the world became ever more interdependent; in which technologies revolutionized production and communications and when the social and spatial organization of built environments and cities were massively transformed. As a response to these developments, social theory has been recast, arguing that space is the medium of social change and hence political struggle. Writing Spaces draws upon these debates. It suggests that research...
Writing Spaces examines and compares discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment between 1960 and 2000, a period in which economies...
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 different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British...
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies ...
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 different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the...
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societi...
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 clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities. These silent framings of everyday life also mediate practices of coercion, seduction and authorization as architects and urban designers engage with the articulation of dreams; imagining and constructing a 'better' future in someone's...
Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act ...
This text focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment.
This text focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examinin...
This original study 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.
This original study brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus- tracing the spread and in...
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 fa ade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent.
Examining how social change is closely intertwined with transformations of the built environment, this volume focuses on the relationship between architecture and state politics in postwar Central Europe using examples from Hungary and Germany. Built around four case studies, the book...
The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. "Building the State...
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 form travelled beyond Europe to become an established institution across the globe, the parameters of civic representation changed and the town hall was forced to negotiate new notions of urbanism and public space.
City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public...
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 rep...
