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Postwar Architecture Between Italy and the UK

Exchanges and Transcultural Influences

Edited by Lorenzo Ciccarelli and Clare Melhuish

University College London, 2021

Explores how cultural exchange after World War II produced twentieth-century British and Italian architecture.
 
In the aftermath of World War II’s devastation, Italy and the United Kingdom reimagined urban space. Post-war Architecture Between Italy and the UK explores how architects, urbanists, and historians in both countries collaborated around the shared need to rebuild. The authors discuss the far-reaching effects of this cultural exchange, including the influence of historic Italian town centers on British public space and the origin of postmodernism in clashes between British critics and Italian architects. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, this volume offers new insights into architectural history in post-war Europe.
 
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Practising Ethics

A poethic infrastructure for architectural and urban researchers

Edited by Jane Rendell, David Roberts, and Yael Padan

University College London, 2026

This book presents a conceptual framework that introduces architectural and urban researchers and practitioners to core ethical concepts and principles.

Grappling with ethics can disorient and disturb your peace of mind in the small hours of the night. Practising Ethics transforms ethics from an obstacle to an opportunity by offering a poethic infrastructure to guide the development of ethical practice in architectural and urban research.

Practising Ethics bridges the gap between research volume and textbook. The book’s two-part structure creates a dialogue between ethical concepts derived from decolonial, ecological, feminist, and queer theory and lived ethical experiences that are explored through specific situations. A series of opening essays present hotspots, touchstones, keystones, blindspots, moonshots, and milestones as different ethical orientations in a six-point methodology. This is followed by six case studies in which practitioners and researchers navigate these orientations through narrative figurations that describe ethical deliberations arising from social science, humanities, practice-led and participatory art, and architectural design research in El Salvador, India, Nigeria, Peru, and the United Kingdom.

The book acts as a companion to an award-winning online toolkit and is illustrated by Judit Ferencz, who offers creative exercises for readers to develop their own poethic infrastructures.

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