How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and
develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects …

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book
devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a …

A quarter century following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies,
many of the dwellings, utilities, and public spaces built by these regimes continue to be …

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was" gifted" to
Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional …

A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design
institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated …

This article discusses the contribution of professionals from socialist countries to architecture
and urban planning in Kuwait in the final two decades of the Cold War. In so doing, it …

Architectural theory as we know it today is informed by Western, neo-Marxist theories. But
throughout history Marxism has influenced architectural thinking in many more ways than …

This article embeds the United Nations (UN) plan to reconstruct the city of Skopje after the
1963 earthquake in a broader story about decolonisation, visions of post-war modernisation …

This interview engages with Łukasz Stanek in a conversation that contextualizes the Special
Collection in Architectural Histories on Marxism and architectural theory across the East …

The paper focuses on multi-layered roles of criticism in mapping architectural discourse,
particularly its main actors and modes. It will present the context of CIAM X held in Dubrovnik …