Key issues explored include the UIA's importance for the field of scientific internationalism, the relations between the UIA and other international organizations, and the changing position of the UIA when facing geopolitical challenges such as totalitarianism, the World Wars and the Cold War. Its long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics.īringing together experts from fields including history, political science and international relations, architecture, historical sociology, digital humanities and information studies, International Organizations and Global Civil Society is the first scholarly book to cover both the UIA's early years and its more recent past. more The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relat. The essays address both broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics, as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century to illustrate the relation between the aesthetic register of ugliness and aesthetic concepts (such as the monstrous, the ordinary, disgust, the excessive, the grotesque, the interesting, the vernacular, the impure and the sublime). Together they offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern architecture and design. This book presents sixteen new scholarly essays which rethink ugliness in recent architecture – from Brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions. more Whatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. Whatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternate.

Kings Quest by Ben Acker