Cheng Xuan Li
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Here is a list of Cheng's writings. We apologise that due to technical issues, some of them are temporarily not available online. If you are interested, please send an email to Lichengxuan@outlook.com and we will be in touch.
H(a)unting Ghosts, or the grand rethinking of the 70 years of pro-regression of public housing in London
#Material History #Public Housing #Criticism
The Last Marlboro Man, or the reassessment of Reyner Banham's Historiography
#Historiography #Modernism #Reyner Banham
Public Interior at A Standstill: Arcades, Modernity and Walter Benjamin
#Historical Materialism #Modernity #Walter Benjamin
The Albanian Ostalgia and the Reincarnation of the Great Pyramida in Tirana
#Eastern Bloc #Post-Socialism in Albania #Ostalgia
The Metropolis and the Archive: Knowledge, Power, Panopticon
#Foucault #Power #Theory of Knowledge #Politics
Riviera Aftersun: Art, Modernity, and Architecture on the Côte d'Azur, Dreamspace of the 20th Century
#Modernity #Modernism #French Riviera
Of and Beyond Modernist Dreams: A Material History of Kinetic Facades
#Material History #Modernism #Technology #Environmental Control