Architext
About the Book Series
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.
Urban Latin America: Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Bianca Freire-Medeiros, Julia O'Donnell
May 24, 2018
Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who ...
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey
1st Edition
By Bülent Batuman
January 04, 2018
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today’s world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping – and in return being shaped by – the built environment. The book tackles this task through an ...
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience
1st Edition
By Jiat-Hwee Chang
April 21, 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
1st Edition
By Anthony King
April 21, 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
1st Edition
Edited
By Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White
March 10, 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 ...
Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe
1st Edition
By Virag Molnar
March 25, 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...
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Sybille Frank, Silke Steets
June 18, 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
1st Edition
By Katerina Rüedi Ray
April 16, 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
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Guggenheim, Ola Söderström
November 25, 2009
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
1st Edition
By Mia Fuller
September 01, 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
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann
January 23, 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 ...
Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form
2nd Edition
By Kim Dovey
December 13, 2007
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 ...