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Space, Art and Architecture Between East and West

The Revolutionary Spirit
Argyro Loukaki

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This timely volume looks beyond the West versus East binary to propose a conceptual revaluation that transcends ruptures. As ancient civilizations rebound, interdisciplinary specialists offer new paradigms to foster mutual communication and deeper global understandings.

Against the backdrop of the established Western supremacy, its ongoing reversal, and the current volatile global condition, the book at hand looks beyond the usual…
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Against the backdrop of the established Western supremacy, its ongoing reversal, and the current volatile global condition, the book at hand looks beyond the usual binaries of West versus East. An urgently timely and nuanced contribution, it proposes conceptual revaluation and the transcendence of ruptures.
This volume explores the transformative interweaving of arts and spatialities between East and West, plus magmas of revolutionary processes in the political and creative domain, which crystallize temporarily into constantly new, global geographies of art and culture.
Ancient Eastern civilizations and their rebounding power dictate a synthesizing paradigm, appropriating, yet overhauling both the political-economic and spatial analysis of capitalism, and postmodern individualism, while leaning deeply into cultural dynamics, ancient and modern.
Rich interdisciplinary explorations of all spatial scales are proposed, while boundaries and traditional outlooks are probed. A globally inclusive, and locally respectful perspective makes specificities visible in space, art and architecture, while propelling mutual awareness between East and West.
The chapters are authored by art, architecture, visual culture, theater, film, human and cultural geography, archaeology, Byzantine studies and music theory specialists.

Argyro Loukaki is Professor Emerita at the Hellenic Open University (HOU) (Greece); she holds a DPhil, Oxford University (UK); is an Architect-Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (Greece); an MA, Sussex University (UK); and an MSc, Panteion University (Greece). She has obtained doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships and prizes from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the universities of Oxford, Princeton (USA), Aristotle of Thessaloniki (Greece), Crete (Greece), and NTUA. She created the highly rated Master’s Program “Art-Cultural Heritage-Development Policies” and launched bi-annual international conferences on art and/in space held at the Acropolis Museum, Greece. Earlier, she accomplished urban planning, architectural design and monument preservation projects as a functionary of the Greek state, including archaeological landscaping and restoration, and was Planning Advisor to the City of Piraeus (Greece). She has written extensively in English and Greek on art, architecture and space, cultural geography, landscape, cultural heritage, restoration and its aesthetics, Mediterranean cultural geography and the geographical unconscious, tourism, and the spatialities of Classical Greek tragedy. She is the author of Mediterranean Cultural Geography and Aesthetics of Development (2009); Living Ruins, Value Conflicts (2016, Greek translation 2025); The Geographical Unconscious (2016); Islands of the Ancient Sea. Aesthetics, Landscape and Modernity (2026), and the editor of Urban Art and the City. Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime (2021); The Monumental (2025).

Argyro Loukaki, François Penz, Maria Aivalioti, Nasso Chrysochou, Nikos Patsavos, Eka Tchkoidze, Patrick Becker-Naydenov, Solmaz Kive, Dionysis Mourelatos, Dimitris Plantzos, Konstantinos I. Soueref, Konstantinos Moraitis, Areti Adamopoulou

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6565-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6565-0
  • Date of Publication: 2026-02-23

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6566-7
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6566-7
  • Date of Publication: 2026-02-23

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: A, AM, RGC
  • BISAC: ART009000, ART037000, ART015000, SOC015000, SOC002010, SOC053000
  • THEMA: A, AM, RGC
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