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Architecture after Partition Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Hannah le Roux
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Architecture as a Mode of Oppression Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Terry Smith
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Steven Lauritano, Wouter Van Acker
How does one distinguish between a reactionary retreat into the past and a critical reconnection with lost practices that might disrupt the current order? This question weighed heavily on architect...
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Global Semperian Tectonics Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Gevork Hartoonian
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reform or Revolution: Architectural Theory in West Berlin and Zurich (1967–72) Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Alessandro Toti
The article explores the evolution of architectural and urban theory in the wake of the 1960s politicisation of the architecture faculties of TU Berlin and ETH Zürich. Focusing on Oswald Mathias Un...
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Repairing What’s Broken and Breaking: Melbourne Public Housing and OFFICE Architects Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Lucy Benjamin
This paper is a response to the growing crisis of “disrepair” in the built environment. Alongside the material disrepair that looms in the wake of imposed neglect and increasingly volatile weather,...
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Visual Culture and Post-War Reconstruction Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Sarah Borree
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Influence and Untimeliness in Modern Architecture: A Conversation between Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Amanda Reeser Lawrence Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Amanda Reeser Lawrence
A conversation between Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Amanda Reeser Lawrence recorded on November 13, 2023 at the Yale School of Architecture. The conversation focuses on their shared interest in twentiet...
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Charles W. Moore and the Uses of History Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Richard W. Hayes
Charles W. Moore (1925–93) was one of the most important architectural educators in the second half of the twentieth century in America, earning the Topaz Medallion in 1989 for excellence in teachi...
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Building Knowledge: Constructing Technoscientific Infrastructures Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Benjamin Blackwell
Through an ethnographic analysis of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and drawing on a Science and Technology Studies (STS) ins...
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A Critical Brutalism? Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Isabel Rousset
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Crisis in the Culture Cabinet: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Colin Rowe and the Architekturtheorie Internationaler Kongress, TU Berlin, 1967 Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Oswald Mathias Ungers, Colin Rowe, edited and introduced by, Steven Lauritano, Wouter Van Acker
In December 1967 Oswald Mathias Ungers convened an international congress on “Architectural Theory” at the TU Berlin. The proceedings of this event were published in German one year later. Here, tw...
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Infrastructural Decay and Urban Politics in West Africa Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Rixt Woudstra
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Continuity and Rupture Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Michael Abrahamson
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2024)
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Architecture Unmoored Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Andrej Radman
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Furniture as Program: Exhibiting, Educating and Professionalising Interior Design at Belgium’s Saint Luke Schools in the 1980s Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Benoît Vandevoort
This article analyses two furniture design exhibitions at the Belgian Saint Luke schools, organised in the 1980s within the programme of interior design. It demonstrates the pivotal role played by ...
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Editorial Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Andrew Leach, Maren Koehler, Jasper Ludewig, Lee Stickells
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2023)
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The Quaint Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Felix McNamara
This essay concerns the aesthetic category of “quaintness.” The quaint is argued here as useable as an aesthetic-political tool with which to construct cultural authenticity or the sense of a prese...
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Metabolic Infrastructures: An Organic Analogy between Literal Imitation and Metaphor Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Peter Šenk
Throughout history, nature and organisms have served as analogies for both design and the contemplation of architecture and cities. In this paper, the concept of metabolism as an organic analogy in...
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Boston City Hall and Mitchell/Giurgola Architects: Thoughts and Themes on a Competition’s “Runner-Up” Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Philip Goad
Analysis of the unofficial runner-up in the 1961–62 design competition for Boston City Hall—the scheme by the Philadelphia-based team of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects (MGA) in association with David...
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Engineering Economies of Identity: Saudi Planning, Pan-Islamism, and Transnational Architectural Production Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Aaron Tobey
Between the early 1960s and the 1980s, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia commissioned a series of large-scale architectural projects as part of an ambitious building programme drawing on both local and f...
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Simultaneous Double Notions: Mannerist Elements in Contemporary Architecture Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Federico Soriano, Maria Dolores Palacios Díaz
There is no complete description of either the term “mannerism” or its associated features. Contradiction, paradox, and ambiguity may have been the terms most referential for mannerism since the 19...
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Representing the Profession and Protecting the Past: Mitchell/Giurgola and the AIA Competition in Washington, DC Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Catherine Lassen, Cameron Logan
In 1964 the American Institute of Architects (AIA) launched a competition to redevelop its headquarters at the Octagon Building (1801) in Washington, DC. The Kennedy Administration had recently res...
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Our Machinic Inheritance Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Aleksandr Bierig
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2023)
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Towards an Architectural Theory of Jurisdictional Technics: Midcentury Modernism on Native American Land Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
How should we do the history of US midcentury modernist architecture—a period marked by intense campaigns of Native American dispossession in the face of organised Indigenous resistance? The spatia...
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Theories of Style Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Michael Hill
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2023)
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A Theory of Architectural Production in a Geography of Change: Auguste Choisy in the Ottoman Empire Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Tülay Atak
This article presents an expanded intellectual, historical and geographical context of Auguste Choisy’s history of architecture. Reading his history of Byzantine architecture along with his travelo...
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Editorial Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jason Dibbs, Andrew Leach
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2023)
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The Architecture of Global Governance: Paths of Approach Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Sven Sterken, Dennis Pohl
International organisations and global governance studies typically refer to “architecture” as the structures of decision-making, power distribution, or financial flows. This position paper challen...
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Dalibor Vesely and the Model of the Late Baroque Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Joseph Bedford
This article explores the value and lessons of the late baroque for Dalibor Vesely as an example of the role that it played for many architectural educators in the 1970s and 1980s. It shows the spe...
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René Furer’s Semantic and Syntactic Analysis: Venturi and Vignola at ETH Zurich Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Frida Grahn
This paper explores the response of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) to the student unrest of 1968. Specifically, it analyses the teaching of Swiss architect and educato...
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A Seat at the Table: United Nations and the Architecture of Diplomacy Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Olga Touloumi
The end of World War Two found diplomats and politicians negotiating architectures of global governance and the future world order. During those initial conversations, tables emerged as the quintes...
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Europe Builds: The Architecture of a Marshall Plan Exhibition as a Performance of Global Governance Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Óskar Örn Arnórsson
Europe Builds was a mobile exhibition designed by the Visual Information Unit (VIU) of the Economic Cooperation Administration, which administered the Marshall Plan (MP), visiting seventeen cities ...
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Building a Dream: Pan Arab Modernism in Kuwait in the 1960s Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Ricardo Camacho
Kuwait’s post-oil modernisation is often attributed to a sequence of masterplans designed by British architects and planners. Throughout the recent history of Kuwait’s urban development, these plan...
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Giancarlo De Carlo: Participation Depends Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Alberto Franchini
This is a first attempt to unpack the concept of participation as developed by one of its most passionate and authoritative advocates: Giancarlo De Carlo. The narrative hinges on the analysis of a ...
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Economies of Scale: Paradigms of a Theory in Housing Sites Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Jesse Honsa
Architecture is always embedded within a set of economic preconditions that determine value. Yet economics is in itself malleable—it is debated, rather than calculated. This article explores the su...
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Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kenny Cupers, Cole Roskam, Girma Hundessa
Few architectural sites seem as symbolic of the system of political rule whose official seat they accommodate as the African Union Conference Center and Office Complex (AUCC) in Addis Ababa. Funded...
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Humanitarian Aid as Global Governance: The Architecture of the Red Cross’s Relief Operations after the 1976 Guatemala Earthquake Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Cathelijne Nuijsink, Annamaria Bonzanigo
Abstract This paper analyses the disaster relief operation that was set in motion immediately after the 1976 Guatemala earthquake through the activities of the Guatemalan Red Cross Society. Already in the emergency phase, “Guatecruz” built field offices in the disaster region to manage both the relief efforts as well as to set up forty-three tent cities. By taking a seat in the disaster zone, as opposed
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What is Queer about Queer Architecture? Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Stathis G. Yeros
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2023)
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“Suitable Palaces”: Navigating Layers of World Ordering at the Centre William Rappard (1923–2013) Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Daniel R. Quiroga Villamarín
Abstract International law “moved to institutions” in the early twentieth century. While recent literature has explored the intellectual trajectories of these international organisations, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of the “buildings, staffs, and letterheads.” Conversely, I put the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of
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“Google for President”: Power and the Mediated Construction of an Unbuilt Big Tech Headquarters Project Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Mark Sawyer, Georgia Lindsay, Nadia Alaily-Mattar
Big Tech companies are powerful global actors that wield unprecedented influence, including in the realms of governance. How these companies position themselves through media is important to their ...
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Unfolding Architecture, Enfolding Landscape: The Shakkei at Geppa-rō Pavilion Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Michael Fowler
In this article I introduce the notion of “borrowing scenery” or jiejing (Jp. shakkei) from Ji Cheng’s 1635 treatise Yuanye (The Craft of Gardens). Shakkei became highly influential in the west thr...
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The Profession’s Vanguards: Arab Architects and Regional Architectural Exchange, 1900–50 Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Nadi Abusaada
Writings on architecture in the Middle East during the first half of the twentieth century have often focused on the legacies of colonial architects and planners in shaping Middle Eastern cities an...
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In from the Periphery: Becoming (G)locally Cosmopolitan in Springvale Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 David Beynon, Freya Su, Van Krisadawat
How might notions of what is cosmopolitan be geographically reinterpreted through the diverse settlement of recent migrants and refugees in Australia? This article brings this question to bear on S...
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Ancillary Accumulation Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Clemens Finkelstein
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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From Doll’s House to Dream House Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Matthew Mindrup
During the 1930s, Australian architects began to construct miniature scale models employing an increasing variety of materials to simulate in detail the spatial, visual, and material characteristic...
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Cosmopolitanism’s Agents and Architectural World making Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Eunice Seng, Jiat-Hwee Chang
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2022)
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Excavating 2020 Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sina Brückner-Amin
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2023)
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Giving Value to Architecture and Heritage Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 James Lesh
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2023)
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Embodied, Built, and Fluid Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Franz Anton Cramer
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2023)
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A New Perspective on Architectural Hybridity in Modern Bangkok Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Chatri Prakitnonthakan
Published in Architectural Theory Review (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2022)
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The Value of Others: Modern Heritage and Historiographic Inequity Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren
Abstract Inspired by growing calls for the equitable recognition of other experiences—especially non-white and non-western—in the historiography of the modern era, this paper explores the themes of transnational architectural practice and cosmopolitanism through the lens of cultural heritage—specifically modern heritage—and how values are ascribed, invariably asymmetrically, to the tangible and intangible
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Ville Blanche: Levantine Gentlemen, Architectural Modernism and the “White City” of Tel Aviv, 1930–48 Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Tzafrir Fainholtz
Abstract This article explores the untold story of Levantine architects who were active in Tel Aviv of the 1930s and 1940s, following the trajectories of cousins Zaky and Robert (Hillel) Chelouche and their contemporaries. Members of Palestine’s French speaking Sephardic-Mizrachi elite, these architects went to study in Paris at a time when French modernist architecture and urban planning was applied
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Cosmopolitan Subaltern: Transnational Spatial Agency on the Fringe of the Worlding Cities of the Global South Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Amanda Achmadi, Brendan Josey
Abstract Kampung is a historical form of vernacular urbanism in Indonesia with similar typologies occurring across Southeast Asia. As an urban form, it plays a crucial role in absorbing rural–urban migration symptomatic of not only postcolonial urbanisation in the Global South, but also precolonial and colonial trade networks. Kampung’s adaptability in accommodating diverse aspirations and cultural
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Prefabrication and Transnational Building Materials in Modern India Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Priya Jain
Abstract This paper analyzes the introduction of European prefabrication building systems in India in the years immediately after independence from Britain in 1947, through the lens of two episodes. In each case, the analysis challenges the often-perceived notion of the local, in this case Indian, actors in the Global South as mere recipients of superior foreign technologies, positing them instead
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A Landscape “Difficult to Describe”: The Model Village and the Capital City Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Phoebe Springstubb
Abstract In mid-twentieth-century Punjab, grassroots development projects sought to modernize the countryside by decentralizing power to villages. The capital city Chandigarh, built in the same period, seems to represent the opposite: a national symbol of a newly independent India’s centralized power. Yet, this article argues, rural and urban were reciprocal and volatile counterparts. Through the work
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Crystals in the Colony Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Diana Jean Martinez
Abstract This article examines the Crystal Arcade, the project of a little-known architect, Andrés Luna, read through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s contemporaneous Passagenwerk, at the same time as it is described within the complex context of Luna’s own family history—one entangled with the tragic history of the First Philippine Republic. It uses Benjamin’s “literary montage” to conjure the spectral
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“Build Your Own House”: Betty Spence’s Design-Research in 1950s South Africa Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Rixt Woudstra, Hannah le Roux
Abstract This article examines the design-research of the white, South African, left-wing, liberal architect Elizabeth “Betty” Spence (1919–84) during early spatial apartheid. Building on Spence’s fragmented archive of publications and interviews, we explore how she worked for and with disenfranchised Black township inhabitants on materializing alternative housing options. Spence’s approach included
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Functional Environs: Austin Tetteh’s Situated World(mak)ing Planning Practice, 1950–80 Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
Abstract Functionalist sociologist and planner Austin Tetteh was the first African Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1971. KNUST soon became a pioneer anticolonial institution that nonetheless incorporated the neocolonial influences of its global staff in order to succeed. European planners in KNUST advocated for architectural functionalism
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“Woman as Creator”: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s and Juliette Tréant-Mathé’s Design of the New Dwelling in Interwar Europe Architectural Theory Review (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Caroline Ford
Abstract This article explores the trajectories of two women architects, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Juliette Tréant-Mathé, who, in contrast to most of their female counterparts in interwar Europe, devoted much of their architectural work to the design of social housing. It examines the nature of the shared social activism that informed their work, while considering the gendered dimension of their