The Global Built Environment as a Representation of Realities: Why and How Architecture Should be Subject of Worldwide Comparison

World architecture as a subject of comparative study is not new. In the first half of the 19th century, western and non-western 'high cultures' were seen as more or less equal, while their forms were compared with each other without significant attention to content, meaning or context. However, with the intensification and institutionalization of the colonisation of the non-western world ....

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