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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Vers un Nouveau Continent: A divulgação da bibliografia corbusiana na América do Sul, 1929-1965
ARQUISUR Revista, 2016 Diversas investigações buscaram avaliar os impactos de Le Corbusier no meio profssional sul–americano. Muitas dessas centraram–se nas influencias de suas viagens a América do Sul (1929, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 e 1962); na divulgação do ideário ...
Mg. Arq. Piero Carapiá Lima Baptista
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Deregulation, government failure, and tragedy: The Report of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, in 2017 has exposed the failures that led to the tragedy in a commendably exhaustive manner. But the explanation of those failures is seriously inadequate. First, they are attributed to deregulation, when the Inquiry itself details the ways in which the cladding of the building was subject ...
David Campbell
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 The development process of global tropical architecture in the middle and late 20th century is investigated in this study. The architectural shading practices of Le Corbusier and Hsia Changshi in the same period are compared.
Wei Yuan, Yang Ni
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Travelling, Staying, Working, Imagining: Space and the Practice of Internationalism, c1900–1950
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 5, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers space as a key element in the practice of internationalism in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing on approaches in historical geography and cultural history, the article proposes four analytical categories through which internationalism might be explored in the period between 1900 and 1950.
Julia Eichenberg, Tomás Irish
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San Marco in Le Corbusier, San Marco in Bogota
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2016 There are many ties between the monumental compound of San Marco in Venice and Le Corbusier. This article follows, studies and organizes these ties to link them to how he resolves the urban project for the Administrative Centre for Bogotá.
María Cecilia O’byrne
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Insights into the Daily Life of Le Corbusier: the agendas in the Fondation Le Corbusier
Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2020 The resources available for research at the Fondation Le Corbusier are many and varied. Among these, the agendas (diaries) offer particularly intriguing insights into the public and private life of Le Corbusier.
Tim Benton
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a practice by analyzing news images of homelessness in Oakland.
Clara Pérez Medina
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract This paper focuses on the everyday experiences of carcerality of a community, known as Kathputli Colony, that has been waiting to be rehoused by the state for over a decade in Delhi, India. We draw on Kathputli Colony's everyday experiences to argue that state‐led housing policies and practices produce carceral socio‐spatialities, rather than ...
Syeda Jenifa Zahan +1 more
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Проект Байкал, 2019 Charles Edouard Jeanneret who changed his name to the symbolic Le Corbusier was the author of a hundred of buildings, dozens of books and articles, a symbol of the age and the culture and an iconic man.
Alexander Rappaport
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