The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City 1945–1989 traces globalisation through the spatial and material histories that architects rarely examine together — airports, hotels, construction labour, and the built logics that connect them across continents.
About This Book
Globalisation is not an abstraction; it is encoded in the terminals, hotel corridors, and construction sites that modern architecture produced and depended upon. In six focused essays, architectural historians Tom Avermaete and Michelangelo Sabatino move across global sites and building types to examine how the post-war built environment both shaped and was shaped by transnational forces. Their method is comparative and materially grounded — attending to spatial, political, and social geographies simultaneously. For practitioners and scholars working at the intersection of architectural history and urbanism, the book reframes globalisation not as background context but as a design condition with measurable spatial consequences.
Key Features
- 238 pages of six focused analytical essays examining global sites, building types, and construction systems
- Authors: Tom Avermaete and Michelangelo Sabatino
- Published by Nai010 Publishers
What You'll Discover
- How building types such as airports and hotels functioned as instruments of globalisation in the post-war period
- The role of construction materials and labour networks in shaping modern architecture across national boundaries
- How spatial, political, and social geographies intersect within a single architectural history framework
- The paradox of globalisation as a force that simultaneously expanded and contracted the inhabited world
About the Author
Tom Avermaete and Michelangelo Sabatino are educators and architectural historians whose research addresses the intersections of modern architecture, urbanism, and global exchange. Their collaborative work brings comparative and cross-cultural methods to the study of the post-war built environment.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 238
- Dimensions: 12 x 19 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789462085831
- Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architectural historians, urbanists, and design researchers with an interest in post-war modernity, globalisation, and the political economies of the built environment.