Third World Modernism

Architecture, Development and Identity
Herausgeber: Lu, Duanfang

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 modernisma (TM)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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415564588
• ISBN-10: 0415564581
• Artikelnr.: 31572726

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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