Spatial Violence: Studies in Architecture - Paperback

by Andrew Herscher (Editor), Anooradha Siddiqi (Editor)

This book poses "spatial violence" as a means to explore histories of and through architecture at sites across the world. Regarding space and violence as co-constitutive, the book's collected 3 essays critique modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for the extraction of violence from everyday life.

Author Biography

Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, Department of Art History, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She writes and teaches in the history and theory of art, architecture, and urbanism, focusing on modern Africa and South Asia, spatial practice across borders, and aesthetics and politics of heritage and emergency.