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