Architecture, Democracy and Emotions

Examines the relationship between architecture, democracy and emotions after 1945, using case studies from Europe and the United States. An important read for students and researchers in architecture, urban studies, history, and political science.

Introduction: Architectural History of Emotions-Emotional History of Democracy Till Grossmann and Philipp Nielsen 1. Designed to Represent: Parliamentary Architecture, Conceptions of Democracy, and Emotions in the Postwar Netherlands Carla Hoetink and Harm Kaal 2. Building Bonn: Affects, Politics, and Architecture in Postwar West Germany Philipp Nielsen 3. Consumer Democracy and the Emotional Investment in Modern Architecture in Postwar Turkey: The Istanbul Hilton Hotel Emre Goenlugur 4. Structures of Feeling: Urban Redevelopment as Self-Development in Dutch Postwar Architecture Tim Verlaan 5. Images, Films, and Emotions in Postwar Architecture in Britain Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 6. Affective Economies of Race and Housing in Postwar New York City Kavita Kulkarni 7. "Palaces in Our Hearts": Caring for Krushchevki Susan E. Reid 8. Defending Modernist Architecture in Poland: Space of State, Emotions, and Democracy Karol Kurnicki Index