Third world modernism : architecture, development and identity / edited by Duanfang Lu.
Contributor(s): Lu, Duanfang
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2011Description: 187 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780415564571 (hbk); 9780415564588 (pbk); 9780203840993 (ebk).Subject(s): Modern movement (Architecture) -- Developing countries | Architecture and society -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century | Architecture and globalization -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 724.6 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 724.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 27/02/2024 | 00134171 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This set of essays brings together studies that 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. Architectural modernism is far more than another instance of Western expansionist aspirations; it has been developed in cross-cultural spaces and variously localized into nation-building programs and social welfare projects.
The first volume to address countries right across the developing world, this book has a key place in the historiography of modern architecture, dealing with non-Western traditions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The other way around : the modernist movement in Brazil / Daniela Sandler -- Depoliticizing group GAMMA : contesting modernism in Morocco / Aziza Chaouni -- Agrupación Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group : architecture and the city in the Peruvian modern project / Sharif S. Kahatt -- Campus architecutre as nation building : Israeli architect Arieh Sharon's Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria / Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler -- Modernity and revolution : the architecture of Ceylon's twentieth-century exhibitions / Anoma Pieris -- This is not an American house : good sense modernism in 1950s Turkey / Elâ Kaçel -- Modernity transfers : the MoMA and postcolonial India / Farhan Sirajul Karim -- Building a colonial technoscientific network : tropical architecture, building science and the politics of decolonization / Jiat-hwee Chang -- Otto Koenigsberger and the tropicalization of British architectural culture / Vandana Baweja -- Epilogue : Third world modernism, or just modernism : towards a cosmopolitan reading of modernism / Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.