Acculturating the Shopping Centre

Author:   Janina Gosseye ,  Tom Avermaete
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781472485045


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   25 October 2018
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Author:   Janina Gosseye ,  Tom Avermaete
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781472485045


ISBN 10:   1472485041
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   25 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. Westfield’s Architecture, from the Antipodes to London 2. Eastern Promises 3. The Latin American Shopping Centre: Cultural Translation, Symbolic Adaptation, and Typological Evolution of Commercial Architecture in Latin American Cities 4. El Helicoide: Venezuela’s Futuristic Living Ruin 5. A Domesticated Shopping Mall in Modern Tehran: The (re)development of Ekbatan 6. Re-centring Tema: From Isotropic Commercial Centres to an Intense Infrastructure of Street-vending 7. The Boulevard Commercial Project in Manado, Indonesia: Trickled-down Globalization versus a Catalysed Super-local Coda The Travelling Type: How Buildings and Practices Migrate Across Cultures

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Global historiography at its best! With case studies from diverse sites such as Venenuela, Iran, Indonesia and the UK, this collection of essays by an international cast of scholars offers a long needed discussion of the complex global forms and affects of the much maligned (sub)urban shopping mall. Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington, USA This collection of brilliant scholarly essays sheds light on what is arguably the only building type whose signature has transformed the urban and sociological landscapes of contemporary megalopolises the world over. The metamorphosis of the functional and geometrical principles characterizing the city core has been accelerated by the transformation of main streets into shopping centre, while central, pedestrian street-like spaces have mutated in scale into the creation of urban mall. Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete have edited a book that demonstrates that this `(mall)eable' modernist type is far from being a `non-lieu' -- rather, it is the ritual space of a new citizenship. Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator Architecture, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA


Global historiography at its best! With case studies from diverse sites such as Venenuela, Iran, Indonesia and the UK, this collection of essays by an international cast of scholars offers a long needed discussion of the complex global forms and affects of the much maligned (sub)urban shopping mall. Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington, USA


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Janina Gosseye is Senior Research Associate at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Her research is situated at the nexus of architectural theory, urban planning and social and political history. Gosseye has edited and authored several books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945–75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Tom Avermaete). Her research has also been published in several leading journals, including the Journal of Architecture and the Journal of Urban History. In 2018, Gosseye was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant for her forthcoming book Speaking of Buildings (2019, with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat). Tom Avermaete is Professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he is Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Avermaete has also edited numerous books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945–75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Janina Gosseye), and is a member of the editorial team of OASE Architectural Journal and the advisory board of the Architectural Theory Review, among others.

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