Memories of cities: trips and manifestoes/

Main Author: Charley, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Furnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2013
Series:Ashgate studies in architecture
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Glimmers of another world: questions on alternative architectural practice
  • Violent stone: the city of dialectical justice
  • Paris: ghosts and visions of a revolutionary city
  • Letters from the frontline of the building industry: 1918-1938
  • Foreign bodies: corps etranger
  • The (dis)integrating city; the Russian architectural and literary avant-garde
  • Sketches of war: the graveyard of historical memory
  • Shadows of economic history: the architecture of boom, slump, and crisis
  • Scares and squares II: a literary journey into the architectural imaginary.