Martin Reinhold Knihy

Multi-National City explores three cities—Silicon Valley, New York's suburbs, and Gurgaon—highlighting their unique characteristics shaped by globalization. The book offers architectural itineraries that showcase corporate globalization's monuments, revealing shared themes and contradictions, culminating in a surprise architectural project that embodies these lessons.

Focusing on the interplay between architectural postmodernism and broader postmodern thought, this work critically reassesses their relationship. Through discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and detailed examinations of buildings and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin offers fresh insights into cultural postmodernism and its implications. The exploration reveals how a rethinking of postmodern architecture enriches our understanding of the era's cultural developments.

Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics

Examining architecture's foundational role in the repression of democracy Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an array of scholars exploring the troubled relationship between architecture and antidemocratic politics. Comprising detailed case studies throughout the world spanning from the early nineteenth century to the present, Architecture against Democracy analyzes crucial occasions when the built environment has been harnessed as an instrument of authoritarian power. Alongside chapters focusing on paradigmatic episodes from twentieth-century German and Italian fascism, the contributors examine historic and contemporary events and subjects that are organized thematically, including the founding of the Smithsonian Institution, Ellis Island infrastructure, the aftermath of the Paris Commune, Cold War West Germany and Iraq, Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic architecture, and Istanbul's Taksim Square. Through the range and depth of these accounts, Architecture against Democracy presents a selective overview of antidemocratic processes as they unfold in the built environment throughout Western modernity, offering an architectural history of the recent "nationalist international." As new forms of nationalism and authoritarian rule proliferate across the globe, this timely collection offers fresh understandings of the role of architecture in the opposition to democracy. Contributors: Esra Akcan, Cornell U; Can Bilsel, U of San Diego; José H. Bortoluci, Getulio Vargas Foundation; Charles L. Davis II, U of Texas at Austin; Laura diZerega; Eve Duffy, Duke U; María González Pendás, Cornell U; Paul B. Jaskot, Duke U; Ana María León, Harvard U; Ruth W. Lo, Hamilton College; Peter Minosh, Northeastern U; Itohan Osayimwese, Brown U; Kishwar Rizvi, Yale U; Naomi Vaughan; Nader Vossoughian, New York Institute of Technology and Columbia U; Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia U.

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions.

In diesem Bericht wird versucht, die Zusammenhänge zwischen Orografie, Meteorologie und Luftbelastung am Beispiel der Periode hoher Luftschadstoffbelastung im Januar 1987" im Kasseler Becken exemplarisch aufzuarbeiten. Im Speziellen werden die Auswirkungen meteorologischer Parameter, unter den gegebenen orografischen Bedingungen, auf das Mischungsschichtverhalten und damit auf die Immissionskonzentrationen im Raum Kassel untersucht. Erst mit solchen quantitativen Beschreibungen und Bewertungen, in denen naturwissenschaftliche Erhebungen als Indikatoren verwendet werden, können Grundlagen für eine Luftreinhalteplanung geschaffen werden. Forschungsbericht, Kassel 1988