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Race and Modern Architecture
Although race - a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination - has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse …
Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built …
Building Character
In the 19th-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to …
Neoliberalism on the Ground
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 …
Improvised Cities
Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the …
Model Schools in the Model City
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press award winning Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin
On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire fence. Over the next …
Building Modern Turkey
Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, …
Spaces of Immigration
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
Re-Collecting Black Hawk
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. …
Of Greater Dignity than Riches
Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, …
Designing Tito's Capital
The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city …