When I first read of the powerful place occupied by master architect Albert Speer in Hitler's
regime, it seemed bizarre to me. Why admit an architect to the inner sanctum of high …

Through the course of the long twentieth century, an expansive and robust philosophical
debate developed on the relationship between art and radical politics, ranging from the work …

48 Rites of Way Part II has become fashionable to associate with all human endeavours.
While it could be argued that the privatizing tendencies of most modern societies remain on …

In 1989, geographer Edward Soja contended that, for at least a century, time and history had
been privileged over space in the conduct of Western social science. 1 While Soja's position …

There is perhaps no better example of this ambiguity than the impact of the notorious
overpasses built by Robert Moses on the Long Island Parkway leading to Jones Beach, one …

Power, and National Identity (1992). There is also interest within architectural theory in
critical theory and the Frankfurt School, as is particularly apparent in the work of Heynen …

What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying
closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common …

Architecture, by its very nature, is a public matter. Whenever we consider buildings in their
aesthetic, economic, or moral dimensions, we must be prepared, at the same time, to treat …

In this chapter, Utopia is understood as a method or process—rather than as a blueprint for
desired futures, or their physical settings. Conceptualized in this way, Utopia reveals how …