Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial

ISBN-13: 9780367636715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 372 str.

Vikramaditya Prakash; Maristella Casciato; Daniel E. Coslett

Opis

This anthology collects developing scholarship on modernism that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett);  PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives;  2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil’s Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real);  3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA’s Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (María González Pendás);  4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture’s Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim);  5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek);  PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism  6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink);  7. Intra-action: Barad’s "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak);  8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan);  PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism  9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie);  10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto’s Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili);  11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain);  PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism  12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo);  13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux);  14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia’s "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris);  PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism);  15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli);  16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber);  17. Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto);  18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley);  Afterword;  19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone);  Index