This theme issue of ABE Journal – Architecture Beyond Europe examines the term "corporate" and its possible relationships to empire and architecture. Read More
In so doing, it considers not only the common usage/conception of corporate as a descriptor—i.e., the commercial dimension— but also its wider and more basic definition, particularly as it applies to organised groups or "bodies" of agents acting for reasons of common purpose. In some cases this went beyond the motivation of purpose to include the actual legal status and perceived responsibilities of such agents, leading to what might be described as
“corporate architectures” in both the narrowest and broadest sense of that term.
Éditorial/Editorial G. A. Bremner et Diego Caltana, Corporations, Corporate
Identity, and Imperial Architectures
G. A. Bremner, The Corporatisation of Global Anglicanism
Anna Nuzzaci, L'opera dell'Associazione Nazionale per Soccorrere I Missionari
Italiani (anmi) fuori d'Europa dal 1886 al 1941
Rachel Lee, Constructing a Shared Vision: Otto Koenigsberger and Tata & Sons
Documents/sources
Claudine Piaton, Les actes de vente des villes du canal de Suez
Positions de thèses/Dissertation abstracts
Stuart King, Colony and Climate: Positioning Public Architecture in Queensland
1859-1909
Recensions/Reviews
Diego Caltana, Ralph Bodenstein, Villen in Beirut. Wohnkultur und sozialer
Wandel 1860–1930
Paolo Girardelli, Re-thinking architect Kemalettin