TU Berlin

The German lacuna in Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said's argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge...

Media forms the generative core of the production of and reflection on architecture - and is therefore not to be understood as mere means of presenting architecture. Mediale Prozesse sind nicht nur bloße Mittel zur Darstellung und Simulation von Architektur, sondern selbst an der Herstellung von Architektur beteiligt. Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich dieser generativen und aktiven Funktion von Medien in Architekturtheorie und -praxis, die als...