TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prakash,Vikramaditya
AU  - Casciato,Maristella
AU  - Coslett,Daniel E.
TI  - Rethinking global modernism: : architectural historiography and the postcolonial
SN  - 9780367636715
U1  - 724.6 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
KW  - Imperialism and architecture
N1  - 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
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