Despina Stratigakos

Architectural historian and professor whose research addresses gender, architecture, and visual culture; author of books and essays on women in architecture and on architectural culture under National Socialism.

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  1. 1. Hitler’s Northern Utopia

    Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

    The book analyzes how Nazi ideologues and architects envisioned occupied Norway as a racially defined model for a reordered Europe, using architecture, urban planning, exhibitions, archaeology, and cultural propaganda to legitimate conquest and remake landscapes and identities; it follows the transnational networks of German planners and Norwegian collaborators, documents concrete building schemes and exhibitionary practices, and argues that these aesthetic and spatial fantasies of a “Northern” racial ideal shaped wartime policy and left lasting traces in cultural memory.

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