ABSTRACT

Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of spatial production through the notion of travel. By aligning architectural thinking with current critical theory debates, this book explores whether dissociating culture from place and identity, and detaching the idea of architecture from both, can reframe our understanding of spatial and architectural practices. The book presents seventeen key case studies from a diverse range of perspectives including historical, theoretical, and praxis-based, and range from interrogations of architectural travel and notions of belonging and nationhood to challenging established geopolitical hierarchies.

part 1|100 pages

New Vision and a New World Order

chapter 1|16 pages

Great Travel Machines of Sight

chapter 2|21 pages

O Coração Verde (A Green Heart):

Travel, Urban Gardens, and Design of Late Colonial Cities in the Southern Hemisphere

chapter 3|18 pages

Nomads and Migrants:

A Comparative Reading of Le Corbusier's and Sedad Eldem's Travel Diaries

chapter 5|21 pages

Learning from Rome

part 2|104 pages

Questioning Origins, Searching for Alternatives

chapter 7|22 pages

Roots or Routes?1

Exploring a New Paradigm for Architectural Historiography Through the Work of Geoffrey Bawa

part 3|84 pages

Global Mobilities

chapter 12|15 pages

Mobility and Immobility in the New Architecture Practice:

A Conversation with Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer

chapter 13|12 pages

Itinerant Perspectives:

A Conversation with David Adjaye

chapter 15|16 pages

Athens, City of the Displaced:

Notes from the Field