History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Cupers)

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 [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13265.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.