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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Avant-Garde, Aestheticization and the Economy
Footprint, 2011 It would very much seem as though the avant-garde in post-war Germany had initially lost sight of the previously politically grounded programmatic narratives. Moreover, it seemed quite obsolete to insist on the destruction of the affirmative.
Michael Müller
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PERIPHERY TO CENTRE STAGE: THE SARRASANI CIRCUS IN WEIMAR GERMANY
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The modern European circus was more than just entertainment: it was a powerful platform where fantasies of empire, ideas of national identity, and notions of racial difference came together and were put on public display. In interwar Germany, the Sarrasani Circus — the largest circus enterprise in the country at the time — built on the legacy ...
Sabine Hanke
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The night representation, sign of modernism in the inter-war architecture
EGA, 2020 The architectural implementation of lighting advances in the 20s allowed the development of unexplored aspects by the most avant-garde architecture of the moment. By selecting and analyzing some particularly meaningful architectural drawings of the inter-
Rodrigo Almonacid Canseco
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, 2010 The Archigram archival project made the works of seminal experimental architectural group Archigram available free online for an academic and general audience.
Rattenbury, K., Rattenbury, K.
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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, 2011 The title for my talk today is «Always Archigram,» because in it I want to think about the legacies of the Archigram group, the famous British neo-avant-garde of the 1960s.
Sadler, Simon
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The Space of Experience in the Architecture of Richard Hamilton [PDF]
, 2018 Richard Hamilton realiza tres exposiciones en el Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) en el Londres de los años 50, participando del ambiente interdisciplinar del Independent Group.
Paz-Agras, Luz
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Innovations in spatial planning as a social process – phases, actors, conflicts [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of this paper is to understand the social process of the emergence and institutionalization of innovations in spatial planning (which we describe as ‘social innovations’).
Christmann, Gabriela B. +3 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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