Histories of Postwar Architecture n°7, “Committed, Policized, or Operative : Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today”
The Mapping Architectural Criticism network is very glad to announce that the issue No. 7 titled “Committed, Politicized, or Operative: Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today” edited by Hélène Jannière and Paolo Scrivano” has been published on September 3, 2021 and is online.
You can read and download issue n. 7 here :
/ EDITORIAL
Hélène Jannière, Paolo Scrivano,
Committed, Politicized, or Operative: Figures of Engagement in Criticism from 1945 to Today
/ FOCUS
Rixt Hoekstra,
Thinking about De Stijl: Three Generations of Committed Historians in the Netherland
Marco Capponi,
Back to the Sources. Manfredo Tafuri’s Teorie e storia dell’architettura (1968) between Project and Work in Progress
Stephen Parnell,
A Semi-Social Magazine: Love, Life, and Architectural Design
Silvia Groaz,
The New Brutalism: Ethic vs. Marxism? Ideological Collisions in Post-War English Architecture
Guanghui Ding,
Constructing a Constellation of Architecture Criticism in 1980s China: Zeng Zhaofen and a Tale of Two Journals
/ MISCELLANEA
Dijia Chen,
On the (Mis)Use of Critical Discourse in Architecture : The Mediatized Generalization of “Experimental Criticism” and its Entanglement with Postreform Art Movement in China
Frederike Lausch, Phoebus Panigyrakis
Aldo Rossi in the Turmoil of “German identity.”
The German Historical Museum Competition of 1988
Alessandro Benetti,
Italy, 1980s: Touring Club Italiano’s Guides and the Non-monumental Heritage
Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA) is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed Journal that aims to publish innovative and original papers on post-war architecture, with no geographical, methodological, historiographical or disciplinary restrictions.
HPA is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary areas 08 and 10.
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