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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neocolonialism and Built Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonial... Lees meer

Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland

Florian Urban

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements--this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland betwe... Lees meer

Stadium Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Architext
• Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections b... Lees meer