Third world modernism : architecture, development and identity / edited by Duanfang Lu. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2011. - 187 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.

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

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Modern movement (Architecture)--Developing countries.
Architecture and society--History--Developing countries--20th century.
Architecture and globalization--History--Developing countries--20th century.

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