Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, explores architecture and the built environment by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices.

Preface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural Research  Tuuli Lähdesmäki Part 1: Temporality and Changing Meanings of Urban Space 2 Temporary Architecture as a Means in Urban Regeneration  Tuuli Lähdesmäki 3 After the Event: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture at the Turn of the 21st Century  Sanja Rodeš Part 2: Architectural Imaginings and Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities 4 Modernism as a Mechanism of Power and Control in Colonial Contexts: The Project of Modernity in Cape Town, South Africa  André van Graan 5 Architectural Agency and ‘Place-Making’ in a Transformative Post-Apartheid South African Landscape  June Jordaan 6 Women as Retrofits in Modernist Low-Income Housing  Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana and Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa Part 3: Spirituality and Decay in Architecture 7 The Heterotopic Nature of the Built Heritage. The Sacred Wooden Architecture of Transylvania and Its Practices  Smaranda Spânu 8 Understanding Spirituality in Disabled Places: Focusing on Urban Ruins and Decay  Joongsub Kim