Verschlagwortet: architecture
Vadym Ilin’s project uses the destruction of Ukrainian late Soviet city districts during the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine as a means to explore the change of the concept of the ‘Soviet Man’s identity’. The research starts with an investigation of how the late Soviet urban landscape shaped Soviet identity and formed the so-called “civilization of panel high-rise buildings”.
By Alyssa Miller. In a 2012 essay published on the webzine Nawaat, sociologist Hela Yousfi alleged that the Ennahda party – then head of Tunisia’s transitional government and dominant partner in the ‘Troika’ coalition – was surreptitiously attacking the UGTT by dumping garbage in front of its regional branches.
By Rick Halpern. The first decades of the twentieth century were a remarkable period for heavy industry across much of North America and Europe. Mass production of goods such as rubber and steel – and consumer products like automobiles and radios – reached unprecedented levels.
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mona Fawaz and Nada Moumtaz Too often, planners reduce the neighborhood of intervention to a map layered to reflect the...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By M. Wesam Al Asali, Majida Malo, and Iyass Shahin Post-war reconstruction has always been proposed and studied as a set...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “The European Industrial Heritage of the First...
by Indra Sengupta “Surely the judgment of … men arrived at on the spot is worth a great deal more than the dogmas of a Committee, the majority of...
Venugopal Maddipati holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is Assistant Professor at the School of Design at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He is currently working on his monograph titled “Architecture as Weak...
by Klaus Schlichte This article is part of the TRAFO series “Doing Global International Relations”. Probably in all capital cities, architecture tells us something about the history of government. Washington...
Saima Akhtar is an architect and designer whose research focuses on the relationship between the built environment, corporate enterprise, and labor migrations. She received a PhD in Urban Studies from...
