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Architecture and Society under Late Socialism
If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity f...
Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar recons...
Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989
Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. This edited collection ...
This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities i...
Messages of Peace, Images of War
This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national exp...
Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial
This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other ...
Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945–1985
In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures fr...
Bridging Worlds
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of t...
Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe...
Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices
Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive soci...
Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city’s famous Holiday Inn hotel. Describing in detail t...
Critical regionalism before globalisation
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an archit...
At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architect...
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Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism
This volume coins the term “Team 10 East” as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist co...
Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela
"Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the...
This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary pers...
Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the dec...
Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonder...
Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia a...
This book outlines the process of writing and publishing research in the field of architecture and design. The book sets out to help researchers find ...
The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year l...
The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as ve...
Urban Transformation in Southeastern Europe
By drawing on the experience of different independent initiatives and associations in southeastern Europe, is it possible to draft and collate typical...
New Forms of Community, 1950-1970
After the Second World War, a divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems �...
Modern Architecture and Global Exchange
This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It char...
Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspect...
In this issue, you will find three peer-reviewed articles and two forum essays. Adrien A. P. Chauvet’s “Cosmographical readings of the Qurʾan” ...
Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities
Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this hand...
Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992
Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact In the years following China's Cultural Revolution, architecture p...
A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts
One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to pr...
Modern European Societies in Search of Identity : Studies in Comparative History
Superconducting, Magnetic and Normal State Properties
This volume contains most of the contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides (Nitrides)...
In addition to the contributions presented at the 2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2018), this book features summaries of t...
A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
Includes entries for maps and atlases....