Negative Anthropology by Stephan Trüby

“…The Right-Wing Spaces research project, which has been running since 2018 at the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory) (IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart, suggests that the answer to this question is fairly unequivocal, at least in the German context: ‘architecture … seems to have become a key tool of an authoritarian, populist right with a revisionist take on history.’…”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In addition, this study examines how one of Rossi’s most famous architectural artefacts, the ossuary of San Cataldo cemetery at Modena, can be viewed as a coalescence of a Benjaminian thought-image, thereby fortifying the philosopher’s presence in modern architecture.…”
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The Odd One Out? Revisiting the Belgian Welfare State by Cor Wagenaar

“…Industrial parks, office buildings and shops, on the other hand, developed into the cornerstones of Belgian modern architecture after 1945. Both the low-density sprawl and the industrial parks depend heavily on the use of the car, which was accommodated by the construction of a network of highways.…”
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China) by Madlen Kobi

“…The practice of regulation of indoor climates has spread globally with the rise of modern architecture and has cemented the idea of an air-conditioned indoors as opposed to a non-controllable outdoors. …”
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Transferts, hybridations et renouvellements des savoirs. Parcours urbanistique et architectural de Michel Écochard de 1932 à 1974 by Marlène Ghorayeb

“…Throughout his entire career, he intervened in various countries in the Middle and Near East, as well as in Africa, becoming a worthy representative of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) in Morocco. From the outset, he claimed without ambiguity to be the spokesperson for French expertise, both in architecture and urban planning. …”
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Humdrum Tasks of the Salaried Men: Edwin Williams, a London County Council Architect at War by Nick Beech

“…This paper suggests that certain developments in modern architecture can be considered contingent upon practices of the demolition industry as developed by Williams. …”
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The Architecture of Traditional and Modern Afghan Houses and the Fundamentalist Regime: Impacts on Women's Lives by Sayed Abdul Basir Samimi, Artur Simões Rozestraten, Júnia Aparecida Laia da Mata

“…Additionally, it comparatively analyzes two houses — one exemplifying the traditional Afghan design and another, modern architecture — in the City of Herat, Afghanistan. …”
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First Graduated Women Architects and Urbanists in Eastern Mediterranean Europe 1900-2000. The Cases of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey by Inés Novella Abril, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

“…Based on a review of digital archives and secondary sources written by local researchers, the aim of this research is to contribute to the dissemination and valorisation of women’s work and contributions to the history of modern architecture. The three countries under study constitute one of the most interesting European peripheries from the point of view of architecture, but also from the point of view of gender studies and women’s history. …”
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Immigrant architects in Brazil: old and new tools for a historiographical discussion by Anat Falbel

“…Bringing together old and new ideas surrounding these issues, this article opens up a discussion about the self-perception of Brazilian modern architectural historiography, addressing the role of foreign and immigrant architects in the spread of architectural modernism.…”
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The Multiple Modernities of Sweden by Janina Gosseye

“…This article reviews the book Swedish Modernism. Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, edited by Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein. …”
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Experimental and Finite Element Analysis on the Structural Performance of Lightweight Hollow Slab Prefabricated Staircases by Jingmin Liu, Yiming Bao, Kang Qin

“…Prefabricated staircases are crucial components in modern architectural structures, but traditional concrete staircases are too heavy for efficient prefabrication, transportation, and construction. …”
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Architectures and Spaces for Care: Recent Contributions to Spanish Postmodern Architectural Culture Led by Women Architects by Maria Isabel Alba Dorado

“…These are based around a critique of modern architectural positions associated with an idealistic vision of society that takes as a reference a neutral gender far from all complexity and excludes the differences between people to establish a paradigm shift from and with feminisms. …”
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