This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping th...Daugiau...
What are Marxist architectural history and criticism? What methods do they employ, and what are their objects of critical analysis? These questions have been asked before, but now more than ever, they require reassessment in light of the continuous...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917920)
A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917937)
A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefi...Daugiau...
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consci...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520400870)
By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architect...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520400863)
By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architec...Daugiau...
The book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It a...Daugiau...
This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris. Through various stages in history the book shows how the political power of monarchs, the aristocracy...Daugiau...
This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based company town projects built in association with the Big Three powers of Wor...Daugiau...
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. This book investigates the architectural history...Daugiau...
Serija: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329818)
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism. An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis...Daugiau...
Serija: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330210)
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682174)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682181)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
