Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415564588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 292 str.

Duanfang Lu

Opis

This set of essays 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.

Spis treści

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 20^th 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 

O autorze

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.