Architecture as a Global System

Architecture as a Global System
Title Architecture as a Global System PDF eBook
Author Peter Raisbeck
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 165
Release 2019-11-08
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1838676570

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This book provides a clear-sighted analysis which suggests that architectural design may yet shape and order the future of cities. A clear argument that emerges is that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute the global system of architectural production.

Architecture as a Global System

Architecture as a Global System
Title Architecture as a Global System PDF eBook
Author Peter Raisbeck
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 152
Release 2019-11-08
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1838676554

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This book provides a clear-sighted analysis which suggests that architectural design may yet shape and order the future of cities. A clear argument that emerges is that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute the global system of architectural production.

The Architecture of Collapse

The Architecture of Collapse
Title The Architecture of Collapse PDF eBook
Author Mauro F. Guillén
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 235
Release 2015
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199683603

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Using a variety of economic, financial, and political indicators, this book demonstrates that the global system has become an 'architecture of collapse'. The global financial crisis of 2008, the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and China, and the European sovereign debt crisis illustrate the causes and the consequences of global instability

Architecture in Development

Architecture in Development
Title Architecture in Development PDF eBook
Author Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Publisher Routledge
Pages 551
Release 2022-04-25
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1000543544

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This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of “development” after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone. It manifested itself in every sphere of expression where economic predicaments might be seen to impinge on cultural factors. Architecture appears in development discourse as a terrain between culture and economics, in that practitioners took on the mantle of modernist expression while also acquiring government contracts and immersing themselves in bureaucratic processes. This book considers how, for a brief period, architects, planners, structural engineers, and various practitioners of the built environment employed themselves in designing all the intimate spheres of life, but from a consolidated space of expertise. Seen in these terms, development was, to cite Arturo Escobar, an immense design project itself, one that requires radical disassembly and rethinking beyond the umbrella terms of “global modernism” and “colonial modernities,” which risk erasing the sinews of conflict encountered in globalizing and modernizing architecture. Encompassing countries as diverse as Israel, Ghana, Greece, Belgium, France, India, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, the Philippines, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Zambia, and Canada, the set of essays in this book cannot be considered exhaustive, nor a “field guide” in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers theoretical reflections “from the field,” based on extensive archival research. This book sets out to examine the arrays of power, resources, technologies, networking, and knowledge that cluster around the term "development," and the manner in which architects and planners negotiated these thickets in their multiple capacities—as knowledge experts, as technicians, as negotiators, and as occasional authorities on settlements, space, domesticity, education, health, and every other field where arguments for development were made.

Architecture in Global Socialism

Architecture in Global Socialism
Title Architecture in Global Socialism PDF eBook
Author Łukasz Stanek
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 0
Release 2020-01-14
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0691168709

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction Worldmaking of Architecture -- Chapter 2 A Global Development Path Accra, 1957-66 -- Chapter 3 Worlding Eastern Europe Lagos, 1966-79 -- Chapter 4 The World Socialist System Baghdad, 1958-90 -- Chapter 5 Socialism within Globalization Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, 1979-90 -- Epilogue and Outlook -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Image Credits.

The Architecture Of Global Governance

The Architecture Of Global Governance
Title The Architecture Of Global Governance PDF eBook
Author James P Muldoon, Jr.
Publisher Routledge
Pages 258
Release 2018-10-08
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0429976461

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A beautifully illustrated textbook of the history, theory and current state of international organizations which increasingly oversee aspects of international affairs and the world's transition to a new global order.. This new and timely textbook recounts the historical and theoretical development of the international system in a lively analysis o

The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks

The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks
Title The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks PDF eBook
Author Adrian Robert Bazbauers
Publisher Routledge
Pages 280
Release 2021-03-11
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1000361330

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This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and multilateral cooperation, with the first recognisable MDB being proposed by Latin America in financial cooperation with the US in the late 1930s. That Inter-American Bank did not eventuate but was a precursor to the World Bank being negotiated at Bretton Woods in 1944. Since then, a complex network of regional, sub-regional, and specialised development banks has progressively emerged across the globe, including two significant recent entrants established by China and the BRICS. MDBs arrange loans, credits, and guarantees for investment in member states, generally with the stated aim of fostering economic growth. They operate in both the Global North and South, though there are more MDBs focusing on emerging and developing states. While the World Bank and some of the larger regional banks have been scrutinised, little attention has been paid to the smaller banks or the overall system. This book provides the first study of all 30 MDBs and it evaluates their interrelationships. It analyses the emergence of the MDBs in relation to geopolitics, development paradigms and debt. It includes sections on each of the banks as well as on how MDBs have approached the key sectors of infrastructure, human development, and climate. This book will be of particular interest to researchers of development finance, global governance, and international political economy.