AA Files: London: Postcolonial City 49

by Patrick Keiller, Sukhdev Sandhu, Mark Rappolt

Each issue of this journal provides a record of the tastes, sensibilities and priorities of the AA School. Published three times a year, it is read by students, academics and architects as an indicator of the latest trends and theoretical concerns. AA Files 49 investigates the status of London as a postcolonial city. Based on a conference at the AA, the issue features contributions from Sunand Prasad on the development of postcolonial architecture in London, an interview with Hanif Kureishi, Patrick Keiller on London in the early 1990s, as well as text by Salman Rushdie and photo easays by Ori Gersht and Rut Blees Luxemburg.

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About the author

Patrick Keiller is a filmmaker whose works include the celebrated London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). He has devised large-scale installations including Londres, Bombay (Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2006) and The Robinson Institute (Tate Britain, London, 2012), the latter accompanied by a book The Possibility of Life's Survival on the Planet. He was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London (2002–11), and has taught in schools of art and architecture since 1974.