 | Acculturating the Shopping Centre Subjects: Built Environment; Geography; Social Sciences; Architecture; Planning; Human Geography; Sociology & Social Policy; Theory of Architecture; Urban Design; Cultural Geography; Urban Sociology; Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50 illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design, cultural geography and sociology. Janina Gosseye is Senior Research Associate at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Her research is situated at the nexus of architectural theory, urban planning and social and political history. Gosseye has edited and authored several books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945-75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Tom Avermaete). Her research has also been published in several leading journals, including the Journal of Architecture and the Journal of Urban History . In 2018, Gosseye was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant for her forthcoming book Speaking of Buildings (2019, with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat).
Tom Avermaete is Professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he is Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Avermaete has also edited numerous books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945-75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Janina Gosseye), and is a member of the editorial team of OASE Architectural Journal and the advisory board of the Architectural Theory Review , among others. |
