{"id":9794,"date":"2026-04-26T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:06:50","slug":"architectural-histories-of-the-global-sunbelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9794","title":{"rendered":"Architectural Histories of the “Global Sunbelt”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The lecture presents the historical and theoretical framework of the edited volume Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (2022). It addresses the ways in which the term \u2018Global Sunbelt\u2019, coined jointly with co-editors P. Pyla and S. Bozdo\u011fan, offers historiographical potential in rethinking the dividing lines of East\u2013West and North\u2013South, while foregrounding connections between leisure and tourism and broader issues of power, identity, religion, conflict, political economy, and nationalism, particularly in regional and formerly colonised contexts of the \u2018Global South.\u2019 Drawing on recent case studies, the lecture further critically interrogates the role of architectural design in shaping the landscapes and imaginaries of the \u2018global sunbelt\u2019, with a particular focus on the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petros Phokaides is an architect, and assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly where he teaches theories of architecture and design. His research focuses on architecture, infrastructures and broader landscape transformations to understand postcolonial visions, geopolitics, and socio-environmental change with a special focus on the Global South.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Date: Monday April 27. 2026
Time: 12:30-13:30
Place: FFB-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lecture presents the historical and theoretical framework of the edited volume Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (2022). It addresses the ways in which the term \u2018Global Sunbelt\u2019, coined jointly with co-editors P. Pyla and S. Bozdo\u011fan, offers historiographical potential in rethinking the dividing lines of East\u2013West and North\u2013South, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,186,7,6,129],"tags":[135,161],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-251","category-architectural-historytheory-book-talks","category-lectures","category-news","category-research-stories","tag-history","tag-theory-and-criticism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9796,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}