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Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technologies and building materials that catered to the local contexts of its remote colonies, such as prefabricated systems. As German architects gathered information about the regions under their influence in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—during expeditions, at international exhibitions, and from colonial entrepreneurs and officials—they published their findings in books and articles and organized lectures and exhibits that stimulated progressive architectural thinking and shaped the emerging modern language of architecture within Germany itself. Offering in-depth interpretations across the fields of architectural history and postcolonial studies, Itohan Osayimwese considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.

In Terminal Architecture, Martin Pawley argues that nearly all modern architecture is misconceived. To embrace a genuinely innovative architectural future would entail a radical shift in values and Pawley considers new vocabularies to achieve this aim. The vision described in Terminal Architecture is an apocalyptic one, spelling the end of architecture and the city as we know them, and cannot fail to stimulate debate. "Brilliant and beautifully written"--Jonathan Glancey, The Architects' Journal

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright Page -- About the Guest-Editor -- Introduction: Why Social Value? -- Valuation -- Defining Social Value -- Capturing Social Value -- Why is Social Value Important? -- Notes -- Design for Impact Measuring Architecture's Social Value in the United States -- The Just City Index -- New York City Public Design Commission and Department of Design and Construction -- Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) -- Enterprise Community Partners -- Valuing Human Outcomes -- Notes -- Documenting Value Creation A Business Opportunity for Architects, Their Clients and Society -- Compelling Stories and Hard Facts -- A Methodology and DIY Guide to Value Creation -- Value and Business Opportunities -- Contributing to Sustainable Development Goals -- Notes -- Resilience Value in the Face of Climate Change -- Calculating Resilience Value -- The Resilience Value Iceberg -- Lessons Learned on How to Act Against the Climate Crisis -- Notes -- New Infrastructure for Communities Who Want to Build -- A Network of Neighbourhood-Owned Factories -- The Art of Building Communities -- Mapping the Social Value of Built InCommon: The Next Step -- Notes -- 'Engender the Confidence to Demand Better': The Value of Architects in Community Asset Transfers -- Notes -- Mapping Eco-social Assets -- The Social Value of Local Networks -- Context -- Locating Social Assets -- Holistic Mapping for Decision-Making -- Notes -- Changing Patterns of Resilience: Exploring the Local -- Why Map Resilience? -- The Resilience Model -- Using the Model Across London -- Demonstrating the Value of the Model -- Notes -- Greenkeeper: Establishing the Full Value of Green -- Green is Good for You -- Changing the Way We Design -- Notes -- High Science and Low Technology for Sustainable Rural Development -- 'Architecture is a toolto improve lives.'.

Up to modern times there was no plastic art among the Jews. In modern times, however, there have been a small but perhaps a proportionately adequate number of Jewish masters in painting, sculpture, & architecture. Furthermore, in the present generation, among the very large number of respectable talents in modern art, Jews are probably more than proportionately represented. How is this to be explained? The former Jewish absence from the plastic arts is attributable in part to a philosophic att, to exclusion from the guilds of artisans, from not belonging enough to a countryside or community to absorb its scenery or to decorate it. Modern plastic art, however, has been for the last 1.5 cent an avant-garde art. It comes into being when the community & its standards do not really satisfy, when there is a conflict of values underneath, & yet there is enough wealth & safety for exp'tion. In the architectural avant-garde of the present cent there are many Jews among the disciples & a few among the leaders. In this generation particularly there have been changes in the field of architecture itself that have made it receptive to the entry of Jews: changes in the building trades, in the status of the architect, in the idea of community, in real estate, & in the modern esthetic. The absence of a native, traditional plastic art among pre-Emancipation Jews explains their slow start in architecture & the fine arts in the 19th cent as compared with their rapid strides in sci, law, literature, & music. If Jews go on to develop a characteristic architectural style in US or in Israel it will spring from the needs & functions of relatively stable Jewish communities. J. A Fishman.

Over the last three decades neoliberal ideology has irreversibly changed our political and economic reality. But what - if any -relationship exists between neoliberalism and our built environment? This book seeks to complement the prevailingly geographical and sociological approaches to neoliberalism by (re)addressing the subject from the specific perspective of architectural theory. The articles collected in the volume focus on various dimensions of the contemporary architecture-system including: architectural practice, disciplinary status, discourse, exemplary projects, theoretical concepts etc. The result offers a multifaceted picture of architecture in the era of neoliberalism and its crisis

Catalog of an architectural exhibit, under the supervision of the Committee on Architecture and Industrial Art, Philip Goodwin, chairman. ; Illustration on cover. ; Mimeographed. ; Cover-title. ; Mode of access: Internet.