The Politics of Making

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ISBN: 9780415431019 | 0415431018
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/5/2007

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A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective.

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Introduction
Politics of Cities
The freedom of the city
The politics of the West Bank Wall: symbolic violence and spaciocide
Politics and housing in 1950s French Algiers
A space of the state: Beijing 1949-59
Representing the state: symbolism and ideology in Doxiadis's plan of Islamabad
The pleasures of driving: experiencing cities from the automobile
Campagna Romana: the formation of the Oltrecitta
Politics of Makers
Architectural theory in the service of the crown: the foundation of the Acadmie royale d'architecture
The flute and the house: doing the architecture of making
Ethical dilemmas and difficult collaborations: an architect's view inside an award-winning but troubling project
Unsettling design: working between cultures in remote Western Australia
The Beehive: a difficult collaboration
Edited by Alison Smithson: the censored history of the 'Team 10 family'
Towards a new understanding of architecture of addition: the unrealised extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art
Politics of seeing
Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice
Ambiguous objects: modernism, brutalism and the politics of the picturesque
Souvenirs of the architectural tourst: Ahmedabad framed
Auschwitz State Museum: collective memory and the contested landscape
Displacing topographies: making and reading Istanbul guidebooks
Down and out in London: photography and the politics of representing life in the Elephant, 1948-2005
The early American maps of Iowa and their politics
Making by stealing: the politics of Helen Chadwick's 'creative and manipulative theft'
The art of the plausible: some characteristics of architectural design
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The Politics of Making

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