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Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of...
University of Pittsburgh Press
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers), Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Urban Studies (Oldfield)
Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.)
This book chapter questions the racial politics behind Germans’ deployment of the concept of “indigenous architecture,” which they believed transparently reflected the racial and ethnic traits of specific populations. Cupers’s chapter outlines how architectural images of pre-modern German life were purposefully manufactured to legitimize a politicized notion of Heimat or...
University of Pittsburgh Press
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
Focusing on the rise of participatory and activist practices that have emerged in the field of architecture over the past decade, this article explores questions of architecture's social agency and project. Privileging activism, informality, and alterity over what is perceived as a dominant architectural culture of tired formalism and celebrity obsessions, such practices expand design from the...
Routledge
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
Focussing on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century imperial Germany, this article examines how environmental thinking shaped the development of modern architecture and urban planning. The environment took on an acute importance in the rapidly industrialising and colonising Empire, prompting a wide range of projects, from landscape conservation and the design of garden suburbs to pioneering...
The journal of architecture
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
This article explores the architectural and intellectual history of geographic. volontaire, a series of experiments in inserting design volition into the study of territory. From the 1940s until the 1970s, an important group of geographers, engineers, state administrators, urban planners, and architects in France used the novel term geographic. volontaire, or 'volitional geography,' to convey...
Architectural Histories
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
This article examines how midcentury European sociologists, planners, and architects mapped the existing city to build future communities. The neighborhood unit concept spread globally in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, its deployment was supported not just by modernist planning principles but by sociological abstractions of community life. Current scholarship emphasizes how...
Journal of Urban History
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct provision in this period are often subsumed under the category of neoliberalism. This article unpacks this narrative...
Public Culture
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)
