Le neuvième volume de la série Critical Spatial Practice propose une histoire commune de l'architecture et des mouvements migratoires de réfugiés à travers une série d'exemples du XXe siècle à aujourd'hui (avec une contribution visuelle d'Omer Fast).
In architectural history, just as in global politics, refugees have tended to exist as mere human surplus; histories of architecture, then, have usually reproduced the nation-state's exclusion of refugees as people out of place. Andrew Herscher's Displacements: Architecture and Refugee, the ninth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, examines some of the usually disavowed but arguably decisive intersections of mass-population displacement and architecture—an art and technology of population placement—through the twentieth century and into the present. Posing the refugee as the preeminent collective political subject of our time, Displacements attempts to open up an architectural history of the refugee that could refract on the history of architecture and the history of the refugee alike.
Andrew Herscher est professeur associé à l'Université du Michigan, intervenant au Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, au département des langues et littératures slaves et au département d'histoire de l'art.
