Screen LibraryRethinking global modernism : architectural historiography and the postcolonial /
"This anthology collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture, that is informed by postcolonial theory and its contemporary derivatives such as posthumanism. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decoloniz...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This anthology collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture, that is informed by postcolonial theory and its contemporary derivatives such as posthumanism. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize that canon using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks it asks, what might a genuinely 'global' history of architectural modernism begin to look like? The chapters explore the weaknesses of normative interpretations of modernism and proposes alternatives to them. It offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern, and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are covered. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial topic"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 372 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780367636708 0367636700 9780367636715 0367636719 |
| Index Number: | NA682 |
| CLC: | TU-09 |
| Call Number: | TU-09/R438-1 |
| Contents: |
Critiques of normative modernist narratives -- New theoretical frameworks for thinking global modernism -- Modernism and (trans)nationalism -- Rethinking agency in modernism -- Infrastructures and materials cultures of global modernism. Global modernism and the postcolonial / "Weak" modernism : managing the threat of Brazil's modern architecture at MoMA / Enchanted transfers : MoMA's Japanese Exhibition House and secular occlusion of modernism / Competing modernities : socialist architecture's challenge to the global / An architecture culture of "contact zones" : prospects for an alternative historiography of modernism / Intra-action : Barad's "agential realism" and modernism / Layered networks : beyond the local and the global in postcolonial modernism / Uneven modernities : Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus / Unbuilt Iran : modernism's counterproposal in Alvar Aalto's Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz / Representing landscape, mediating wetness : Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) / Domestic funk : favelados of the Global North / CINVA to Siyabuswa : the unruly path of global self-help housing / Subaltern-diasporic histories of modernism : working on Australia's "Snowy Scheme" / The politics of concrete : material culture, global modernism, and the project of decolonization in India / Jane Drew in Lagos : carbonization and colonization at BP House, 1960 / Provincializing ENI's disegno africano : Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam / The politics of circulation : cinema architecture in colonial Morocco / Massive urbanization and the circulation of eventualities / |