ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe - n°12/2017
The space of Diplomacy
This thematic section of ABE features contributions on the role and meanings of embassies and other structures designed for diplomacy, in urban fabrics situated east and south of the Mediterranean. Read More
Albeit inherently representative objects, embassies are seldom considered as architectural signifiers, or as parts of the cultural landscape of a city. Starting from Addis Abeba and moving on to Ankara, Kabul and Beijing, the four papers of the section show that while the architecture of diplomacy displaces a fragment of the nation beyond its territorial borders, this movement is never limited to the transfer of technologies and architectural styles. The making of diplomatic landmarks can be assessed as a dialogic process of space production, entailing negotiation and domestication in the foreign context, appropriation and reworking of local symbolic and material resources, interaction with the surrounding social and physical landscape.
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- Publisher
- InVisu
- Editorial coordination by
- Paolo Girardelli,
- Journal
- ABE Journal
- Language
- French
- BISAC Subject Heading
- ARC000000 ARCHITECTURE
- Onix Audience Codes
- 01 General / trade
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3801 OUVRAGES DE DOCUMENTATION
- Title First Published
- 15 January 2019
- Original Publication
- 2019
Hardcover
- Publication Date
- 15 January 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9791097315092
- Extent
- Front matter page count (Roman) : 178
- Code
- 98337
- Dimensions
- 17 x 23.5 cm
- Weight
- 304 grams
- List Price
- 35.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Dossier : The space of diplomacy. Design and beyond
Éditorial/Editorial
Paolo Girardelli, Here and elsewhere: the landmarks of a changing world order
Dirk van Gameren et Anteneh Tesfaye Tola, A city shaped by diplomacy
Cristina Pallini et Armando Scaramuzzi, Paolo Caccia Dominioni's work for the Italian embassy at Ankara
Michela Rosso, Rome / Kabul / Rome: Elective Affinities and an Embassy
Project
Ke Song et Jianfei Zhu, Architecture at a Political Turning Point: Diplomatic Buildings in 1970s Beijing
Débat/Debate
G. A. Bremner, Does ABE Journal need a rethink? "Early modern" and "modern" in the study of imperial / colonial architecture
Documents/sources
Simon De Nys-Ketels, Johan Lagae, Laurence Heindryckx et Luce Beeckmans, Service des travaux publics, Province de l'Équateur, Congo Belge : "Situation des constructions C.M.C. au 1-9-1954"
Positions de thèse/Dissertation abstracts
Irit Katz, Architecture of Control and Struggle: Camps and the Reordering of Populations and Territories in Israel-Palestine
Kim De Raedt, Policies, people, projects. School building as development aid in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa
Nilina Deb Lal, Building Calcutta: Construction Trends in the Making of the Capital of British India, 1880‒1911
Recensions/Reviews
Leïla el-Wakil, Catherine Courtiau, Ambassades et représentations suisses à l'étranger = Schweizer Botschaften und Vertretungen im Ausland
Daniel Maudlin, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino,
Canada
Aurélie Petiot, G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British
Empire
Sylvia Chan, Johnathan Andrew Farris, Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Simon De Nys-Ketels, Jiat-Hwee Chang, A Geneaology of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience
Sarah Longair, Prita Meier, Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere