Space & Culture

Medicine by design: The architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943, Annmarie Adams, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Annmarie Adams‘ methodological position treats buildings and architecture as social agents, not simply as receptive canvases of human intentionality. Taking this attitude towards hospitals, she uses Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in the period 1893-1943 as her […]

Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.

The overwhelming feeling I have by the end of Ordinary Affects is that the author, Kathleen Stewart, has transcribed and compiled an array of haphazard, quasi-accidental and unpredictable trajectories that haunt cultural theory and, ultimately, show it up in all its fragility. […]

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City, Michael McKinnie, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
Shakespeare suggested that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, but what is the relationship between world and stage? What is the use of spaces for culture, and of culture for spaces? […]

What do you think are the key theoretical texts and themes on space and culture of the last three years? What has been most influential in your work? We’re interested in hearing your take on what specific theory books, articles, journals, magazines, blogs, shows, places and other media are important for space and culture. And, […]

We are moving the book reviews from the journal on-line to this blog. This means reviews will be accessible faster, closer to the time that books are published. And, they will be more publicly and easily searchable. We will continue to publish articles in the print journal. But since book reviews are not peer-reviewed, there […]