In the summer of 1927, the groundbreaking housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung opened in the southern German city of Stuttgart. The exhibition was the first of its kind, bringing together a new generation of functionalist architects, and it aimed to be a display of the new architectural style, also known as Neues Bauen. The prototype village in…
If we really understood that we were about to disappear, would we still do it? The question is not my own, but the author Sara Stridsberg’s. In a radio program she describes that death is inscribed in our bodies, we cannot avoid it and yet there is no subject that makes us humans more anxious.…
Cultural nationalism strives to create and maintain visible borders between the insiders and aliens. The Latvian town and regional community Zilupe (Blue River) shows us the simultaneous presence and absence of the boundary. Situated in the east of Latvia, Zilupe borders to Russia and Belarus. Individuals of several ethnic origins live in this rural region,…
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