The Politics of Making Book

Introduction Mark Swenarton Part 1: Politics of Cities 1. The freedom of the city David Harvey 2. The politics of the West Bank Wall: symbolic violence and spaciocide Brigitte Piquard 3. Politics and housing in 1950s French Algiers Kahina Amal Djiar 4. A space of the state: Beijing 1949-59 Jianfei Zhu 5. Representing the state: symbolism and ideology in Doxiadis's plan of Islamabad Ahmed Zaib K. Mahsud 6. The pleasures of driving: experiencing cities from the automobile Iain Borden 7. Campagna Romana: the formation of the Oltrecittà Lorenzo Romito Part 2: Politics of Makers 8. Architectural theory in the service of the crown: the foundation of the Académie royale d’architecture Anthony Gerbino 9. The flute and the house: doing the architecture of making Leonidas Koutsoumpos 10. Ethical dilemmas and difficult collaborations: an architect’s view inside an award-winning but troubling project Jason Alread 11. Unsettling design: working between cultures in remote Western Australia Fiona Harrisson 12. The Beehive: a difficult collaboration Robin Skinner 13. Edited by Alison Smithson: the censored history of the ‘Team 10 family' Igea Troiani 14. Towards a new understanding of architecture of addition: the unrealised extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art Albena Yaneva Part 3: Politics of seeing 15. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice Stephen Kite 16. Ambiguous objects: modernism, brutalism and the politics of the picturesque Jonathan Hill 17. Souvenirs of the architectural tourst: Ahmedabad framed Jane McAllister and Ben Stringer 18. Auschwitz State Museum: collective memory and the contested landscape Helena Webster 19. Displacing topographies: making and reading Istanbul guidebooks Aslihan Senel 20. Down and out in London: photography and the politics of representing life in the Elephant, 1948-2005 Ben Campkin 21. The early American maps of Iowa and their politics Marwan Ghandour 22. Making by stealing: the politics of Helen Chadwick’s ‘creative and manipulative theft’ Stephen Walker 23. The art of the plausible: some characteristics of architectural design Tony Fretton