International Law and Architecture

Renske Vos, Sofia Stolk, Miriam Bak McKenna (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3948-8 (ISBN)

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Through eye-catching design or bureaucratic functionality, buildings make international law tangible for its practitioners, audiences and constituencies. This compelling book furthers our understanding of the impact of architecture on the field of international law with imagination and style.

Chapters engage with questions surrounding the relationship between architecture and identity construction, public reception, (de)colonial ordering, affect and spatial politics. Offering a range of perspectives on the role of architecture in shaping international law, the impressive group of contributors set out a new transdisciplinary enquiry into law, space, and aesthetics. The book highlights how the material, visual, and spatial realms influence international law’s norms, values, histories, as well as our individual experiences and expectations of the law.

Illustrated by a rich array of images of signature international spaces, International Law and Architecture is a timely and essential resource for students of public international law, politics, and architecture. The book will also engage readers interested in the intersections of geography, urban studies, and legal practice.

Edited by Renske Vos, Sofia Stolk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Miriam Bak McKenna, Roskilde University, Denmark

Contents
Foreword xvi
Hilary Charlesworth
1 International Law and Architecture: A blueprint 1
Renske Vos, Miriam Bak McKenna and Sofia Stolk
PART I GROUNDS
2 A jurisprudence of gardens: International law, architecture
and gardens of multitudes 19
Matilda Arvidsson
3 Inside-out: Autonomy, formalism and the legal architectures
of outsider art 40
Lucy Finchett-Maddock
4 Rubble 63
Christine Schwöbel-Patel
5 Osteocartography: The architecture of international legal
reproduction 77
Rose Sydney Parfitt
PART II CITYSCAPES
6 Urbicide in Ukraine. On the multiple lives of architecture in
international law 80
Susanne Krasmann
7 Senate Square, Helsinki: Architecture, urban design, and
resistance 98
Panu Minkkinen
8 Revisiting New Babylon: Architecture for a new society
without institutions 115
Bart van Klink
9 ‘The City [in] The City?’: Exploring international law’s
architecture in York’s Human Rights City 135
Alice Trotter
PART III HEADQUARTERS
10 ‘Creole’ modernisers and regional world-makers: Vignettes
from the CEPAL building in Santiago (1957–66) and the
Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi (1967–73) 154
Julián Gómez-Delgado and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
11 The desire for value consensus in international law:
Architectural aspirations of global institutions 174
Brydon T. Wang and Rain Liivoja
12 International law goes to Belém and to the Amazon:
Institutional buildings and urban developments on the eve of
COP 30 199
Flávia do Amaral Vieira
13 Provisional permanence: The architecture of NATO’s
successive seats 218
Sven Sterken
14 ‘One world’: Defining cultural internationalism at UNESCO
HQ 244
Miriam Bak McKenna
PART IV COURTS
15 Glass justice: On architecture, audience, and interaction in the
ICC building 269
Sofia Stolk
16 Building the legal architecture of the Extraordinary Chamber
in the Courts of Cambodia 288
Nhat-Minh Nguyen Le
17 Courts in a time of permacrisis: The architecture of presence
in the digital era 307
Lorna Cameron
Epilogue 335
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Index 343

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	1-0353-3948-X / 103533948X
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-3948-8 / 9781035339488
Zustand	Neuware