Black Friday at the Agora: A Story of Retail Architecture and Capitalism

This essay contextualises and analyses the development of shopping centres in the 20th century by their connection to postmodernism and capitalism, through Frederic Jameson’s theories on the advent of the architectural style and cultural movement, positioning the act of shopping as a cultural production of the economic system. Using Jameson's...

Design as a Mediating Instrument

Urban design, involved at the end of 1960's is regarded as a phenomenon of Postmodernism and a critique for the modernist architecture and urban planning. People of different backgrounds have different concerns and perceptions on the physical urban environment, thus have different images of the city. These images create diversity in urban spaces...