Book Series in Architecture
Architext
New & Published Titles:
Visualizing the City
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41971-0 | Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge.
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Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41635-1 | Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.
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Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of...
ISBN: 978-0-415-70131-0 | Published July 19th 2007 by Routledge.
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Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39909-8 | Published March 7th 2007 by Routledge.
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Moderns Abroad
Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-19463-1 | Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge.
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Indigenous Modernities
Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and...
ISBN: 978-0-415-32376-5 | Published May 27th 2005 by Routledge.
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Spaces of Global Cultures
Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-19620-8 | Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.
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Beyond Description
Singapore Space Historicity
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....ISBN: 978-0-415-29982-4 | Published April 15th 2004 by Routledge.
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Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows...ISBN: 978-0-415-28361-8 | Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.
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Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-27493-7 | Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.
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Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-24814-3 | Published October 25th 2001 by Routledge.
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The Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that...ISBN: 978-0-415-14346-2 | Published October 25th 2001 by Routledge.
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Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-23615-7 | Published July 20th 2000 by Routledge.
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The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-17366-7 | Published November 25th 1999 by Routledge.
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Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured...ISBN: 978-0-415-17253-0 | Published September 23rd 1999 by Routledge.
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Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of...ISBN: 978-0-415-17368-1 | Published April 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Architectural discourse has traditionally represented buildings as art objects or technical objects. Yet buildings are also social objects in that they are invested with social meaning and shape social relations. Recognizing these assumptions, the Architext series aims to bring 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, 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 is 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.