Architecture, Democracy and Emotions

Till Großmann specializes in the modern social and political history of Germany. He is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the International Max Planck Research School—Moral Economies of Modern Societies, Berlin. His dissertation project on love, marriage, and partnership in state-socialist East Germany reflects his research interests in the history of emotions, gender, and subjectivity. Philipp Nielsen is an Assistant Professor for Modern European History at Sarah Lawrence College and Associated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He received his PhD from Yale University. His research interests include Jewish German history, German political and architectural history, and the history of emotions.

Introduction: Architectural History of Emotions—Emotional History of Democracy Till Großmann and Philipp Nielsen 1. Designed to Represent: Parliamentary Architecture, Conceptions of Democracy, and Emotions in the Postwar Netherlands Carla Hoetink and Harm Kaal 2. Building Bonn: Affects, Politics, and Architecture in Postwar West Germany Philipp Nielsen 3. Consumer Democracy and the Emotional Investment in Modern Architecture in Postwar Turkey: The Istanbul Hilton Hotel Emre Gönlügür 4. Structures of Feeling: Urban Redevelopment as Self-Development in Dutch Postwar Architecture Tim Verlaan 5. Images, Films, and Emotions in Postwar Architecture in Britain Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 6. Affective Economies of Race and Housing in Postwar New York City Kavita Kulkarni 7. "Palaces in Our Hearts": Caring for Krushchevki Susan E. Reid 8. Defending Modernist Architecture in Poland: Space of State, Emotions, and Democracy Karol Kurnicki Index