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The political paradoxes of practice: political economy of local and global architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Dana Cuff
Dana Cuff
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Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 405 Hilgard Avenue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1427, USA
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Abstract

Globalization, while extensively theorized and empirically studied by economic geographers, has yet to be seriously investigated in architecture. There are multiple forms of architectural practice in the United States and some significant changes are under way. In addition the local politics of urban architecture discloses a counterweight to balance globalism's homogenizing tendencies. This paper proposes strategies for a more experimental architecture that partakes of the global-local dialectic.

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Practice
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 77 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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