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

Political Postmodernisms

Lidia Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Architext
• Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and his... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture on the Borderline

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable ... 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

Bauhaus Dream-House

Katerina Rüedi Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - ... 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

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