Rethinking global modernism : architectural historiography and the postcolonial
Rethinking global modernism : architectural historiography and the postcolonial
/ edited by Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett
- xxi, 372 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Global modernism and the postcolonial Part I. Critiques of normative modernist narratives 2. "Weak" modernism : managing the threat of Brazil's modern architecture at MoMA 3. Enchanted transfer : MoMA's Japanese exhibition house and the secular occlusion of modernism 4. Competing modernities : socialist architecture's challenge to the global 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Award, and the creation of the civilization industrial complex Part II. New theoretical framework for thinking global modernism 6. An architecture culture of "contact zones" : prospects for an alternative historiography of modernism 7. Intra-action : Barad's "agential realism" and modernism 8. Layered networks : beyond the local and the global in postcolonial modernism Part III. Modernism and (trans)nationalism 9. Uneven modernities : Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus 10. Unbuilt Iran : modernism's counterproposal in Alvar Aalto's Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz 11. Representing landscape, mediating wetness : Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) Part IV. Rethinking agency in modernism 12. Domestic funk : favelados of the Global North 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa : the unruly path of global self-help housing 14. Subaltern-diasporic histories of modernism : working on Australia's "Snowy Scheme" 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 16. Jane Drew in Lagos : carbonization and colonization at BP House, 1960 17. Provincializing ENI's disegno africano : Agip Tanania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam 18. The politics of circulation : cinema architecture in colonial Morocco 19. Massive urbanization and the circulation of eventualities
9780367636715
Modern movement (Architecture)
Imperialism and architecture
724.6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Global modernism and the postcolonial Part I. Critiques of normative modernist narratives 2. "Weak" modernism : managing the threat of Brazil's modern architecture at MoMA 3. Enchanted transfer : MoMA's Japanese exhibition house and the secular occlusion of modernism 4. Competing modernities : socialist architecture's challenge to the global 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Award, and the creation of the civilization industrial complex Part II. New theoretical framework for thinking global modernism 6. An architecture culture of "contact zones" : prospects for an alternative historiography of modernism 7. Intra-action : Barad's "agential realism" and modernism 8. Layered networks : beyond the local and the global in postcolonial modernism Part III. Modernism and (trans)nationalism 9. Uneven modernities : Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus 10. Unbuilt Iran : modernism's counterproposal in Alvar Aalto's Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz 11. Representing landscape, mediating wetness : Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) Part IV. Rethinking agency in modernism 12. Domestic funk : favelados of the Global North 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa : the unruly path of global self-help housing 14. Subaltern-diasporic histories of modernism : working on Australia's "Snowy Scheme" 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 16. Jane Drew in Lagos : carbonization and colonization at BP House, 1960 17. Provincializing ENI's disegno africano : Agip Tanania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam 18. The politics of circulation : cinema architecture in colonial Morocco 19. Massive urbanization and the circulation of eventualities
9780367636715
Modern movement (Architecture)
Imperialism and architecture
724.6