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.
Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
1st Edition
By Anthony King
September 01, 2004
This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a ...
Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo
June 18, 2004
This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions ...
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Cairns
December 16, 2003
To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is ...
Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
1st Edition
By C. Greig Crysler
August 19, 2003
Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the ...
Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach
January 11, 2002
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private ...
The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language
1st Edition
By Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus
January 11, 2002
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, ...
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 ...
The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
1st Edition
By Paul B. Jaskot
December 22, 1999
This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the ...
Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell
November 11, 1999
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct ...