Architecture – multipliciudades

Stanek | Architecture in Global Socialism

Oct 30, 2019

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Arquitectura, Sin categoría

Łukasz Stanek’s Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War will be out with Princeton University Press early next year, and is already available to pre-order on the publisher’s website. The book is a much-anticipated development of Stanek’s groundbreaking forays into the connections of socialist Europe and…

‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives

Sep 28, 2017

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Martin Wagner, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

The final version of my article ‘Martin Wagner in America: planning and the political economy of capitalist urbanization’ has been published in Planning Perspectives (this alternative link provides temporary free access to the full paper). This is part of the research I did last year with Wagner’s personal archive at Harvard Frances Loeb Library, which…

Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials

Mar 6, 2017

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in Architecture, Arquitectura y crítica, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planning history

I had a great time during the seminar last week at the AA, where I presented my recent research on planning’s role in the destruction of working-class centralities through several historical illustrations from Germany and the US. This is a new episode of my ‘social history of planning’ project and it was the first time…

Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…

Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms

Oct 22, 2016

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Arquitectura, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Sin categoría

An interesting short interview with Teresa Caldeira via urbanNext, discussing the dangers and problems of architectural discourses aestheticizing so-called informal urbanisms and street cultures.

The politics of architecture | Mouffe, Aureli, Whiting et al

Oct 7, 2015

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in Architecture, Espacio y política, Manfredo Tafuri, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Political urbanism, Space and politics

Following up on the previous post, you can find below an interesting set of presentations about the politics of architecture by Chantal Mouffe, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Reinhold Martin, Ines Weizman and Sarah Whiting, and the ensuing discussion at the Architectural Association in an event organized by The Architecture Exchange. The roundtable is especially stimulating, with…

Category: Architecture

Stanek | Architecture in Global Socialism

‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives

Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials

Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms

The politics of architecture | Mouffe, Aureli, Whiting et al