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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1116-1132, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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A right way of looking at things

Festival dell'Architettura Magazine, 2022
Book review: Author: Alberto Bologna Title: Chinese Brutalism Today Subtitle: Concrete and Avant-Garde Architecture Language: English Publisher: ORO Editions Features: 21x30 cm, 298 pages, paperback, colour ISBN: 978-1-943532-38-4 Year ...
Marco Marino
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Alessandro Mendini et Casabella (1970-1976) : écrire et représenter la crise de l’architecture

Amnis
The editorials of Alessandro Mendini, architect and director of Casabella from 1970 to 1976, are the support and the manifestation of an intellectual and social crisis affecting architecture in the years of the Italian radical avant-garde. Mendini's mode
Léa Battais
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Re‐Materialising the Geography of Religion: A ‘Triple‐I’ Framework of Infrasecularity, Iconicity and Infrastructuring

Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship in the Geography of religion has expanded the study of religious space beyond formal places of worship to informal and temporary sites. This article reviews these developments while highlighting a persistent gap: the limited attention paid to the material agency of architecture.
Silvia Omenetto
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
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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Formal - eshtetic characteristics of contemporary student hostels [PDF]

Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2013
The paper analyzes formal-esthetic characteristics of structures of contemporary student hostels. The focus of research are the specific characteristics of shaping of form and treatment of facades of student hostels.
Nikolić Vladan, Nikolić Olivera, Marković Biserka   +2 more
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ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 323-336, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
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The Myth of the Soviet Avant-Garde and VKHUTEMAS

Проект Байкал, 2019
The brief rise of the Soviet avant-garde in the 1920s was the basis for the formation of the myth and the foundation for the architects’ creative work in the 1960s.
Elena Bagina
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Historical heritage and contemporary architecture fusion at the example of the city center of Graz [PDF]

Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2008
The research subject of the paper is the center of Graz as a fusion of historical heritage and modern architecture, with its seven landmarks of modern architecture selected here in order to make a short review of this unusual mix. Although the historical
Aranđelović Biljana
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Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 271-280, June 2026.
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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