Time and Transformation in Architecture

Tuuli Lähdesmäki, PhD (2007), University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and DSocSc (2014), University of Eastern Finland, is an Adjunct Professor of Art History at the University of Jyväskylä. She has lead research projects and published studies on cultural and urban policies.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural ResearchTuuli LähdesmäkiPart 1: Temporality and Changing Meanings of Urban Space2 Temporary Architecture as a Means in Urban RegenerationTuuli Lähdesmäki3 After the Event: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture at the Turn of the 21st CenturySanja RodešPart 2: Architectural Imaginings and Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities4 Modernism as a Mechanism of Power and Control in Colonial Contexts: The Project of Modernity in Cape Town, South AfricaAndré van Graan5 Architectural Agency and ‘Place-Making’ in a Transformative Post-Apartheid South African LandscapeJune Jordaan6 Women as Retrofits in Modernist Low-Income HousingAssumpta Nnaggenda-Musana and Eiman Ahmed ElwidaaPart 3: Spirituality and Decay in Architecture7 The Heterotopic Nature of the Built Heritage. The Sacred Wooden Architecture of Transylvania and Its PracticesSmaranda Spânu8 Understanding Spirituality in Disabled Places: Focusing on Urban Ruins and DecayJoongsub Kim