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ARCHITECTURE
Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present
Edited by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helena Mattsson Reframes accepted narratives of neoliberalism and postmodernism through an architectural lens.
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across the world.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946014 • Hardback • 90 b/w illus. 254 x 178mm • 448 pages • February 2019 • £50.00
Architecture of Good Behavior
Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America By Joy Knoblauch Explores psychological functionalism as a political tool.
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioural research after the Second World War, new initiatives in America at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviours with environmental incentives. This book explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a post-war nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945734 • Hardback • 85 b/w illus. 254 x 178mm • 320 pages • April 2020 • £42.00
Race and Modern Architecture
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis and Mabel O. Wilson Constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory.
Although race has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century.
