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This volume explores contested heritage, examining how colonial legacies and conflicting narratives shape public spaces. Through diverse case studies, it analyses the role of artists, activists, and planners in reshaping how societies engage with difficult pasts in the present.
This volume offers a transdisciplinary exploration of contested heritage, examining how colonial legacies, dissonant memories, and conflicting narratives shape public spaces across varied historical and geographical contexts. Through case studies across diverse historical and geographical contexts, it investigates how these memories are negotiated in monuments, institutions, and the built environment. The contributors analyse the role of cultural practitioners, artists, curators, architects, urban planners, and activists in reshaping heritage narratives, as well as the impact of archives and media. Combining theory and practice, the book highlights how contested histories are managed, displayed, or challenged within diverse socio-political settings. This collection is a valuable resource for scholars of memory studies, heritage and museum professionals, and cultural policymakers, offering critical insights into how societies engage with difficult pasts in the present.
The Venice Charter was meant to conserve traditional buildings, but has been misused to justify clashing new architecture in old places, attracting global condemnation. These essays explore how planning went wrong and how we can heal the mistakes of the past.
This book explores parallel tectonic strategies in cinema and architecture, analyzing how films and buildings compose place, space, time, and narrative. Analyses of works by Hitchcock, Lynch, Corbusier, and Zumthor reveal characteristics transferable across disciplines.
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. Learn how to put theory into practice and acquire a new point of view in appreciating art.
The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
This collection of essays presents innovative concepts to understand the spaces of the Americas through local lenses. Challenging canonical knowledge derived from outside the region, it introduces a new conceptual framework to analyze the spatial histories of the Americas.
Challenging the profligate building and urban development which severely impacts upon society and the environment, this study questions the ethics, equity and sustainability of overbuilding, thereby exposing a number of ‘elephants in the big green room’.
Architects draw to think and manage complexity. This collection of chapters and interviews frames a new critical perspective on drawing as a way to encourage spatial thinking and practice in architecture and urbanism, considering both historical and current uses.
After the great Abbey of Cluny was destroyed, its memory was resurrected. This study follows the discursive history of the site, investigating the role of memory in constructing the past and the concept of heritage in France.
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