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Book SynopsisTime and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, approaches architecture and the built environment from an interdisciplinary point of view by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices. The volume consists of seven chapters that explore the following questions: How do architectural ideas, ideals, and meanings emerge, develop, and transform? How is architecture manifested in relation to time, time-space, and the social dimensions it entails and produces? The volume provides both multifaceted theoretical discussions on time and temporality in architecture and empirical case studies around the globe in which these theories and conceptualizations are tested and explored. Contributors are Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa, André van Graan, June Jordaan, Joongsub Kim, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana, Sanja Rodeš and Smaranda Spânu.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural Research Tuuli Lähdesmäki Part 1: Temporality and Changing Meanings of Urban Space 2 Temporary Architecture as a Means in Urban Regeneration Tuuli Lähdesmäki 3 After the Event: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture at the Turn of the 21st Century Sanja Rodeš Part 2: Architectural Imaginings and Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities 4 Modernism as a Mechanism of Power and Control in Colonial Contexts: The Project of Modernity in Cape Town, South Africa André van Graan 5 Architectural Agency and ‘Place-Making’ in a Transformative Post-Apartheid South African Landscape June Jordaan 6 Women as Retrofits in Modernist Low-Income Housing Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana and Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa Part 3: Spirituality and Decay in Architecture 7 The Heterotopic Nature of the Built Heritage. The Sacred Wooden Architecture of Transylvania and Its Practices Smaranda Spânu 8 Understanding Spirituality in Disabled Places: Focusing on Urban Ruins and Decay Joongsub Kim
