History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)

Sewordor, E.S.K. (2025) ‘Women and Gendered Roles in the History of Diamond Mining in Colonial Ghana’, African Studies Review, pp. 1–18. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.251.

Cupers, K. and Kitata, M. (2024) ‘Kamĩrĩĩthũ’, in Decolonising the Built Environment. 1 edn. New York: Routledge (Decolonising the Built Environment), pp. 187–198. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003326014-14.

Larsen, Maren et al. (2024) ‘ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(5), pp. 916–935. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13265.

Ali, Nura et al. (2024) ‘How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?’, Environment and Urbanization. 11.03.2024, 36(1), pp. 13–32. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478241230498.

Haile, Semhar (2024) The coopting of ‘participation’ in development discourse: observations from the ground”. Basel : Allegra Lab.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame and Daudi, Francis (2024) ‘Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika’, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 58, pp. 133–156. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2288157.

Beutter, A. and Sewordor, E.S.K. (2024) ‘A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’’, Religion, 54(3), pp. 514–537. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2024.2362062.

Cupers, Kenny (2024) The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design. University of Texas Press (Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices). Available at: https://doi.org/10.7560/329818.

Cupers, Kenny (2024) ‘Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, p. Online ahead of print. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241231153.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. and Cupers, Kenny (2023) ‘Architectural Expertise and the Coloniality of Knowledge’, ABE Journal [Preprint], (21). Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.14125.

Cupers, Kenny, Roskam, Cole and Hundessa, Girma (2023) ‘Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union’, Architectural Theory Review, 27(1), pp. 103–135. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2240445.

Allen, C. (2023) The (un)Welcoming City: Sonic Psychogeography and Refugee’s Sense of Belonging in the Urban Everyday.

Altmann, V. (2023) Cultivating Citizenship through Cultural Terrains: A Study of the NEOJIBA Project’s Complementary Registers of Emancipation in Bahia, Brazil.

Baranyk, I. (2023) Witnessing Whiteness: The Cultivation of Food and Identity in the Hoosier State.

Bonvin, L.A. (2023) Echoes of the East: Unearthing (Post)Socialist Heritage in Chemnitz” Garages.

Cupers, Kenny and Kitata, Makau (2023) ‘Kamiriithu Afterlives: A Progress Report’, Jahazi: Culture, Arts, Performance, 11(1).

Grünenfelder, R. (2023) Planning Pharmaceutical Urbanity: Basel in Transition in the Face of the Novartis Campus Enclave.

Honegger, L.L. (2023) Who Cares? Strategies and Legitimations of Urban Political Collectives in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2023) ‘The Opportunity for Loss is Fully Appreciated, but: Theft and Conflicting Policy in the Making of the Gold Coast’s Diamond-Mining Industry, 1919-1950s’, African Economic History, 51(1), pp. 93–120. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.51.1.93.

Sewordor, E.S.K. (2023) ‘The Opportunity for Loss is Fully Appreciated, but: Theft and Conflicting Policy in the Making of the Gold Coast’s Diamond-Mining Industry, 1919-1950s’, African Economic History, 51(1), pp. 93–120. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.51.1.93.

Wilopo, Claudia (2023) ‘Das Nothilfesystem für abgewiesene Asylsuchende - Ein Bericht zu den psychischen Gesundheitsfolgen: Analyse der sozialen, psychischen und gesundheitlichen (Un-)Zumutbarkeit der Zustände im Nothilferegime’. Solinetz. Available at: https://solinetz-zh.ch/wp-content/uploads/Bericht_Nothilfesystem_Print_ganz_weiss_einzelseiten2.pdf.

Cupers, Kenny (2023) ‘German Colonial Building Cultures within Europe? Ansiedlungsbauten in West Prussia (1904)’, in Michael Falser (ed.) Deutsch-koloniale Baukulturen: Eine globale Architekturgeschichte in 100 visuellen Primärquellen. Munich: Dietmar Klinger Verlag (Deutsch-koloniale Baukulturen: Eine globale Architekturgeschichte in 100 visuellen Primärquellen), pp. 170–173.

Wilopo, Claudia (2023) ‘Wenn Nothilfe die Not verschlimmert: Ungleichheit im Migrationsregime’, in Lack, Peter; Saner, Fabian (ed.) Sozialalmanach Ungleichheit in der Schweiz. Luzern: Caritas-Verlag (Sozialamanach), pp. 171–190. Available at: https://www.lehmanns.ch/shop/sozialwissenschaften/61192014-9783855921935-ungleichheit-in-der-schweiz.

Baumann, H.V. (2022) A Home by Women for Women - Exploring Histories Behind the Facade of the Frauenwohnkolonie Lettenhof.

Cherpillod, S. (2022) From a Quiet to a Visible Right to the City: Exploring the Urban Spatiality of Eritrean Migrants in Nyon, Switzerland.

Crawford, A.J. (2022) Locked in and Locked out, two sides of the same coin. Social Integration and Urban Development in Marginalised Neighbourhoods in Switzerland. A Critique of Projets urbains.

Cupers, Kenny (2022) ‘Review of: Anders Ese & Kristin Ese, The City Makers of Nairobi: An African Urban History’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, pp. 1–2.

Cupers, Kenny et al. (2022) What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy. Zürich: Park Books.

Cupers, Kenny et al. (2022) What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy. Zurich: Park Books.

Lehmann, Z. (2022) Skateboarding Southern Urban Space. Shaping Accra’s Urban Space by Rewarding Experiences.

Nhieu, V. (2022) The Politics of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Public Libraries, Infrastructure, Urban Development and Settler Colonialism.

Rearte, A. (2022) Black Box BAZ: The Invisibility and Violence of Federal Asylum Centers in the Canton Of Zurich.

Suter, L. (2022) The Emotions of the Block: Constructing a landscape of feeling for the Telli housing estate in Aarau, Switzerland.

Wolf, L.P. (2022) Dismantling the Master’s House. An Exploration of the Female Body as Site of Urban Knowledge Production in Zurich City including Perspectives on Inclusive Planning.

Cupers, Kenny (2022) ‘Is there an Environmental Modernism?’, in Vegetation under Power. Heat! Breath! Growth! . Spector Book (Vegetation under Power. Heat! Breath! Growth! ).

Cupers, Kenny (2022) ‘On the Coloniality of Infrastructure’, in , Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula, Emilio Distretti, & Myriam Perret, (tran.) What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy . Zurich: Park Books (What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy ).

Scotto, Giulia (2022) ‘ENI Empire and the Motel Agip of Dar es Salaam’, in Prakash, Vikramaditya; Casciato, Maristella; Coslett, Daniel E. (ed.) Global Modernism and the Postcolonial: New Perspectives on Architecture. New York: Routledge (Global Modernism and the Postcolonial: New Perspectives on Architecture), p. 17.

Ayata, Bilgin et al. (2021) ‘The Implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in Greece and Italy: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis’. Swiss Network for International Studies.

Cupers, Kenny (2021) ‘Coloniality of Infrastructure’, E-Flux Architecture, online series.

Erofeev, Nikolay (2021) ‘Cybernetics & Standardization: Revisiting a Soviet Vision for Better Urbanism’, Strelka MAG, p. 04.10.2021. Available at: https://strelkamag.com/en/article/cybernetics-and-standardization.

Erofeev, Nikolay and Stanek, Łukasz (2021) ‘Integrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Comecon Architecture in Socialist Mongolia’, ABE Journal, 19(19), pp. 1–37. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.12604.

Haghinavand, S. (2021) Swiss Asylum Law: The Urban Informality Machine. How Does Swiss Asylum Law Produce Urban Informality in Switzerland?

Shastri, V. (2021) Remaking Livelihoods: Everyday Struggles of the Displaced - A Study of the Dravyavati River Rejuvenation Project in Jaipur.

Suter, A. (2021) Following the Swiss Railway. Politics of Land, Spatial Logics of Capital and State-driven Financialization Processes.

Vazquez Martinez, D. (2021) Art as an Engine of Transformation: Re-thinking ‘La Merced’ neighborhood of Mexico City.

Wermuth, L. (2021) Kinaesthetic Urban Encounters: Winter Swimming as Embodied Experience of Bern’s Liquid City Space.

Cupers, Kenny (2020) ‘Die Gespenster Eurafrikas’, ARCH+, 1 January, pp. 29–39.

Cupers, Kenny (2020) ‘Contagion and Containment: Curtailing the Freedom of Movement in Times of Coronavirus’. Eurozine. Available at: https://www.eurozine.com/contagion-and-containment/.

Cupers, Kenny and Meier, Prita (2020) ‘Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-Africa Highway’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 79(1), pp. 61–81. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.1.61.

Cupers, Kenny R., Gabrielsson, Catharina and Mattsson, Helena (2020) Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present, Culture, politics, and the built environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (Culture, politics, and the built environment).

Cupers, Kenny (2020) ‘The Global Age of Mass Housing’, in Despina Stratigakos (ed.) A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age. London: Bloomsbury (A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age), pp. 63–89.

Cupers, Kenny (2020) ‘The Invention of Indigenous Architecture’, in Irene Cheng, Mabel Wilson, and Charles Davis (ed.) Race and Modern Architecture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (Race and Modern Architecture), pp. 187–199.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2020) ‘Where is the Social Project?’, in Chattopadhyay, Swati; White, Jeremy (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture. London: Routledge (Routledge companions), pp. 387–392. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688947.

Cupers, Kenny (2019) ‘Gardening as Geopolitics’, Journal of Landscape Architecture, 14(3), pp. 46–51. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2019.1705580.

Cupers, K. (2019) ‘Where is the social project?’ Taylor and Francis, pp. 387–392. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688947-30.

Escamilla, E. (2019) Tranfronteridad and Everyday Commuter Negotiations of Tijuana’s Borderscape.

Mahler, M. (2019) Basel aus der Expat-Perspektive. Eine Kartographie urbaner Konzepte.

Nienhoff, L.M. (2019) We are Workers, not Immates!“: The Politics of Space in Mozambican Workers” Company Dormitories in East Germany (1979-1990).

Steiner, S. (2019) Sozialverträglichkeit beim Grenzhof Luzern.

Wiederkehr, B. (2019) Architektur der Immanenz.

Cupers, Kenny (2018) La banlieue, un projet social: Ambitions d’une politique urbaine, 1945-1975. Marseille: Parenthèses.

Cupers, Kenny and Miessen, Markus (2018) Spaces of uncertainty: Berlin revisited. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Hochhäusl, Sophie et al. (2018) ‘Architecture and the Environment’, Architectural Histories, 6(1), pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.259.

Cupers, Kenny (2018) ‘Powers of Association: Le Corbusier in the banlieue’, in Miljacki, Ana; Reeser Lawrence, Amanda (ed.) Terms of Appropriation: Essays on Architectural Influence. London: Routledge (Terms of Appropriation: Essays on Architectural Influence), pp. 50–72.

Cupers, Kenny and Martinez de Guereñu, Laura (2018) ‘Modernism as Accommodation’, in Bergdoll, Barry; Massey, Jonathan (ed.) Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions. Basel: Lars Müller (Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions), pp. 272–291.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2017) ‘Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing’, Public Culture, 29(1), pp. 165–190. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644445.

Cupers, Kenny and Rice, Charles (2017) ‘Éric Rohmer in Cergy-Pontoise’, AA Files, 74, pp. 112–122.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2017) ‘Shopping à l’américaine’, in Gosseye, Janina; Avermaete, Tom (ed.) Shopping Town Europe. London: Bloomsbury (Shopping Town Europe), pp. 25–37. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474267397.ch-002.

Cupers, Kenny R. and Demchenko, Igor (2017) ‘Projective Geographies Between East and West’, in Moravanszky, Akos; Lange, Torsten; Hopfengärtner, Judith; Kegler, Karl R. (ed.) East West Central: Re-Building Europe, 1950-1990. Basel: Birkhäuser (East West Central: Re-Building Europe, 1950-1990), pp. 135–151.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016) ‘Bodenständigkeit: The Environmental Epistemology of Modernism’, The journal of architecture, 21(8), pp. 1226–1252. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2016.1254271.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016) ‘Géographie volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture’, Architectural Histories, 4(1), pp. 1–13. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.209.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016) ‘Mapping and Making Community in the Postwar European City’, Journal of Urban History, 42(6), pp. 1009–1028. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144216675044.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016) ‘The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centers in Postwar Europe’, in Stierli, Martino; Widrich, Mechtild (ed.) Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Interaction and Occupation. London: I.B. Tauris (Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Interaction and Occupation), pp. 13–39.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2015) ‘The Cultural Center: Architecture as Cultural Policy in Postwar Europe’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 74(4), pp. 464–484. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.4.464.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2015) ‘Why We Like to Blame Buildings’. Oxford University Press Blog. Available at: https://blog.oup.com/2015/08/france-postwar-architecture/.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2015) ‘The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending’, in Graaff, Kristina; Ha, Noa (ed.) Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy. New York: Berghahn (Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy), pp. 139–163.