Prof. Dr. Kenny R. Cupers

Cupers, Kenny. (2025). Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures [Journal-article]. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 43, Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241231153

Cupers, K., & Sewordor, E. S. K. (2025). How urban Africa challenges the coloniality of infrastructure [Journal-article]. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 43. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251361186

Cupers, K., & Kitata, M. (2024). Kamĩrĩĩthũ. In Decolonising the Built Environment (1 ed., pp. 187–198). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003326014-14

Larsen, Maren, Jenss, Alke, Schuetze, Benjamin, & Cupers, Kenny. (2024). ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects [Journal-article]. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(5), 916–935. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13265

Ali, Nura, Garfias Royo, Margarita, Cupers, Kenny, Arabbu Ndege, George, Campbell-Clause, Jack, & Bennett, Jhono. (2024). How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas? Environment and Urbanization, 36(1), 13–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478241230498

Cupers, Kenny. (2024). The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design [Monograph]. University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/329818

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 (Vol. 71, pp. 170–173). Dietmar Klinger Verlag.

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

Cupers, Kenny, Roskam, Cole, & Hundessa, Girma. (2023). Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union [Journal-article]. Architectural Theory Review, 27(1), 103–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2240445

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

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

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

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, 1–2.

Cupers, Kenny, Distretti, Emilio, Herz, Manuel, Nkula-Wenz, Laura, Oldfield, Sophie, & Perret, Myriam. (2022). What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy. Park Books.

Cupers, Kenny, Oldfield, Sophie, Herz, Manuel, Nkula-Wenz Laura, & Distretti, Emilio. (2022). What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy. Park Books.

Ayata, Bilgin, Cupers, Kenny, Pagano, Chiara, Fyssa, Artemis, & Dia, Alaa. (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, January 1). Coloniality of Infrastructure. E-Flux Architecture, Online Series.

Cupers, Kenny. (2020). The Global Age of Mass Housing. In Despina Stratigakos (Ed.), A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (pp. 63–89). Bloomsbury.

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

Cupers, Kenny R. (2020). Where is the Social Project? In Chattopadhyay, Swati; White, Jeremy (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (pp. 387–392). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688947

Cupers, Kenny. (2020, January 1). Die Gespenster Eurafrikas. Arch+, 29–39.

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

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

Cupers, Kenny, Oldfield, Sophie, Herz, Manuel, Nkula-Wenz, Laura, & Distretti, Emilio. (2020). Urban Studies at the University of Basel. GeoAgenda, 2020/1, 15–17.

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

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

Cupers, K. (2019). Where is the social project? In The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (pp. 387–392). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688947-30

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 (pp. 50–72). Routledge.

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

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

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

Hochhäusl, Sophie, Lange, Torsten, Adams, Ross Exo, Barber, Daniel A., Bierig, Aleksandr, Cupers, Kenny, Doucet, Isabelle, Ferng, Jennifer, von Fischer, Sabine, Förster, Kim, Krivy, Maros, Kurg, Andres, Levin, Ayala, Nolan, Ginger, & Vronskaya, Alla. (2018). Architecture and the Environment. Architectural Histories, 6(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.259

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

Cupers, Kenny R., & 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 (Vol. 2, pp. 135–151). Birkhäuser.

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

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

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 (pp. 13–39). I.B. Tauris.

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016). Bodenständigkeit: The Environmental Epistemology of Modernism. The Journal of Architecture, 21(8), 1226–1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2016.1254271

Cupers, Kenny R. (2016). Géographie volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture. Architectural Histories, 4(1), 1–13. 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), 1009–1028. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144216675044

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 (pp. 139–163). Berghahn.

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

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

Cupers, K. (2014). Where is the social project? Journal of Architectural Education, 68(1), 6–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2014.864892

Cupers, Kenny. (2014). The Social Project: Housing Postwar France. University of Minnesota Press.

Cupers, Kenny. (2013). Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture. Routledge.

Cupers, K. (2013). Introduction. Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884141-5

Cupers, Kenny. (2012). Making Camp: Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth Movements. In Making a New World: Architecture and Communities in Interwar Europe.

Cupers, Kenny. (2012). Promises of a Free Space. Vlaamse Bouwmeester Cahier 3.

Cupers, Kenny. (2011). Designing Social Life: The Urbanism of the Grands Ensembles. Positions, 1.

Cupers, Kenny. (2011). The expertise of participation: Mass housing and urban planning in post-war France [Journal-article]. Planning Perspectives, 26(1), 29–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2011.527546

Cupers, Kenny, & Doucet, Isabelle. (2009). Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice. Footprint Journal.

Cupers, Kenny. (2008). Governing through nature: Camps and youth movements in interwar Germany and the United States [Journal-article]. Cultural Geographies, 15(2), 173–205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007087498

CUPERS, KENNY. (2005). Towards a nomadic geography: Rethinking space and identity for the potentials of progressive politics in the contemporary city [Journal-article]. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4), 729–739. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00619.x

Cupers, Kenny, & Miessen, Markus. (2002). Spaces of Uncertainty. Müller + Busmann.