Title & Author:

Architecture against democracy : histories of the nationalist international / Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman, editors.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

viii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architecture and the Nationalist International / Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman -- Part I. Hegemony: Coercion with consent: 1. Hints on whiteness and American public architecture / Mabel O. Wilson -- 2. The photographic mythology and memory of Hitler's destroyed new Reich chancellery / Naomi Vaughan -- 3. DIY fascism: architecture and the autarchic exhibition of Italian minerals / Ruth W. Lo -- 4. The concrete politics of housing: assembling Cecap Guarulhos in authoritarian Brazil / José H. Bortoluci -- 5. Freehold/Freedom: exurban existence in the United Arab Emirates / Kishwar Rizvi -- Part II. Technocracy: ideologies of expertise: 6. Germanizing Krakow: the political complexity of architecture under Nazi occupation / Paul B. Jaskot and Eve Duffy -- 7. Afro-Caribbean migration and detention at Ellis Island / Itohan Osayimwese -- 8. Curtain wall inside-out: technocracy, theocracy, and technoaesthetic formations of Cold War fascism / María González Pendás -- 9. Sert goes South: planning South America / Ana María León -- 10. Albert Speer, Ernst Neufert, and the modularization of the world / Nader Vossoughian -- Part III. Democracy: perennially deferred?: 11. "The fairness of our demands": ecclesiastical architecture, bureaucracy, and resistance in the Prussian Rhineland, 1815-1840 / Laura diZerega -- 12. Metropolis against the state : architectures of violence after the Paris Commune / Peter Minosh -- 13. The racial allegories of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie style / Charles L. Davis II -- 14. Democracy and war: the University of Baghdad between collaboration and national competition / Esra Akcan -- 15. The aesthetics of resistance: Istanbul's standing man between the body politica and bare life / Can Bilsel -- Conclusion: democracy now? / Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman.

Summary:

"Comprising detailed case studies throughout the world spanning from the early nineteenth century to the present, Architecture against Democracy analyzes crucial occasions when the built environment has been harnessed as an instrument of authoritarian power. An architectural history of the recent "nationalist international," this timely collection offers fresh understandings of the role of architecture in the opposition to democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517916763 (paperback)
1517916763
9781517916756 (library binding)
1517916755
(ebook)
9781452970837

Subject:

Architecture Political aspects.
Democracy and architecture.
Architecture Aspect politique.
Démocratie et architecture.

Added entries:

Martin, Reinhold, 1964- editor.
Zimmerman, Claire, 1961- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320092
Call No.: 320092
Copy: 1
Status: External loan