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1. The Hieroglyphics of Space

   Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

   Edited by Neil Leach

   'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? Hieroglyphics of...

   Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
2. Architecture and Revolution

   Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

   Edited by Neil Leach

   Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions...

   Published February 24th 1999 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Architecture

   A Reader in Cultural Theory

   By Neil Leach

   Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the...

   Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge