STATES OF EMERGENCY

More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism f
rom a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged f
rom battle. The collection places an emphasis on the various states of emergency as experienced by combatants and civilians across five continents-from refugee camps to military installations, villages to capital cities-thus uncovering the role archi
tecture played in mitigating and exacerbating the everyday tragedy of war.