Architectural theory as we know it today is thoroughly informed by Western, Neo-Marxist theories. But throughout history Marxism has influenced architectural thinking in many more ways than just through this particular and well known intellectual trajectory. Its multiple trajectories crisscrossed the political boundaries created by world history and distinct forms of Marxist architectural theory were being articulated in the countries where Orthodox Marxism was the foundation of political theory or where Marxism inspired revolutionary or post-colonial struggles.
This Special Collection thus asks about architectural theory and its Marxist imprint in the Second and Third World in the decades of the 1950s through the 1980s, investigating the interconnections between these different countries and traditions and unravelling entanglements with versions of postcolonial or anti-imperialist theories. It offers a first exploration of these issues, aiming at a preliminary inventory of what was going on where and who were some of the key figures. It thus offers necessary ground work for what later could become a more precise mapping of the worldwide impact of Marxist thinking on architectural discourse.
Guest Editors: Hilde Heynen & Sebastiaan Loosen
Image credit: Still from ‘Tatlin’s Tower’, Takehiko Nagakura’s Unbuilt Monuments series,1999. Reproduced from Philip Jodidio, Architecture Now! (Cologne: Taschen, 2001), 430.Editorial
Marxism and Architectural Theory across the East-West Divide
Hilde Heynen and Sebastiaan Loosen
2019-10-15 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2019 • Volume 7 • 21
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Interview
Cold War History beyond the Cold War Discourse: A Conversation with Łukasz Stanek
Hilde Heynen and Sebastiaan Loosen
2019-10-10 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2019 • Volume 7 • 19
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Research Article
Algerian Socialism and the Architecture of Autogestion
Sheila Crane
2019-10-15 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2019 • Volume 7 • 20
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Collections
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Building Civic Identities. Communal Palaces in Italian Urban History (14th-17th Centuries)
Intersecting Practices: Architecture and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe - Italy and the Netherlands
The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Postmodernism
Architects as Global Entrepreneurs (1850-2000)
From Ration Cards to Refugee Camps: Architecture, Bureaucracy, and the Global State of Emergency during World War One
Comprador Networks and Comparative Modernities
Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
Marxism and Architectural Theory across the East-West Divide
Resilience in Architectural History
On Style
On the meaning of 'Europe' for Architectural History
Travel
Building Word Image: Printing Architecture 1800-1950
Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Culture of Crisis