Third World Modernism
Architecture, Development and Identity
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-415-56458-8 (ISBN)
Description
This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and cultural identity. Architectural modernism is far more than another instance of Western expansionist aspirations; it has been developed in cross-cultural spaces and variously localized into nation-building programs and social welfare projects.
The first volume to address countries right across the developing world, this book has a key place in the historiography of modern architecture, dealing with non-Western traditions.
The first volume to address countries right across the developing world, this book has a key place in the historiography of modern architecture, dealing with non-Western traditions.
Reviews / Votes
"Third World Modernism is a book which makes tremendous strides toward imagining a multivalent history of architecture sensitive to the particularities of place and the rich diversity of actors that produce it. The several examples of fine-grained historical research not only fill a void in the literature on the built environment, but systematically disassemble the certainties and centralities undergirding disciplinary readings of modernism." - Traditional Dwellings and Settlements ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
65 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 12 s/w Zeichnungen
12 Line drawings, black and white; 65 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-56458-8 (9780415564588)
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Person
Duanfang Lu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney and author of Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005.
Content
1. Introduction: Architecture, Development, and Identity Part 1: The Will of the Age 2. The Other Way Around: The Modernist Movement in Brazil 3. Contesting Modernism in Morocco 4. Agrupacion Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group: Architecture and the City in the Peruvian Modern Project Part 2: Building the Nation 5. Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli Architect Arieh Sharon's Obademi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 6. Modernity and Revolution: The Architecture of Ceylon's 20th Century Exhibitions 7. This Is Not an American House: Good Sense Modernism in 1950s Turkey Part 3: Entangled Modernities 8. Modernity Transfers: The MoMA and Postcolonial India 9. Building a (Post)Colonial Technoscientific Network: Tropical Architecture, Building Science and the Politics of Decolonization 10. Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of British Architectural Culture 11. Epilogue: Third World Modernism, or Just Modernism: Towards a Cosmopolitan Reading of Modernism