Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies

David Hutama Setiadi

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• This book reveals the 'epistemic imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the ... Lees meer

Framing Places

Kim Dovey

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext | nr. 5
• 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... Lees meer

The Words Between the Spaces

Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus

• Hardcover | Architext
• The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new parliament, and Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the... Lees meer

Colonial Modernities

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies ... Lees meer

Moderns Abroad

Mia Fuller

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Afric... Lees meer

Bauhaus Dream-house

Katerina (Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA) Ruedi Ray

• Hardcover | Architext
• This original study brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus – tracing the spread and i... Lees meer

Writing the Global City

Anthony King

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts - globalisation,... Lees meer

Framing Places

Kim Dovey

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this account shows how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets,... Lees meer

Desire Lines

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-resea... Lees meer

Gender Space Architecture

• Hardcover | Architext
• This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architect... Lees meer

Embodied Utopias

• Hardcover | Architext
• A collection of essays from both established and younger scholars from a variety of disciplines address the relationship between gender and projects o... Lees meer

Indigenous Modernities

Jyoti Hosagrahar

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• 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 meaning... Lees meer

Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by... Lees meer

Re-shaping Cities

• Hardcover | Architext
• How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landsc... Lees meer

The Architecture of Oppression

Paul B. Jaskot

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Lees meer

Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital

Hilton Judin

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political rep... Lees meer

Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

Virag Molnar

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State pee... Lees meer

Beyond Description

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a glob... Lees meer

The Optimum Imperative

Ana Miljacki

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• The Optimum Imperative examines architecture's multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situat... Lees meer

Writing Spaces

C. Greig Crysler

• Hardcover | Architext
• This book explores how journals mediate and transform our understanding and experience of buildings urban spaces and architectural cultures. Lees meer

The Words Between the Spaces

Deborah Cameron, Thomas a Markus

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that... Lees meer

The Architecture of Oppression

Paul B Jaskot

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through ... Lees meer

Urban Latin America

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a... Lees meer

Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

Cairns Stephen

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. S... Lees meer