Screen LibraryNon West modernist past：on architecture & modernities
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| Group Author: | ; |
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World Scientific Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 216 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9789814365949 9814365947 |
| Index Number: | TU |
| CLC: | TU-091.5 |
| Call Number: | TU-091.5/N812 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index. Interrogating modernism and modernities. Modernism : where we're at (and how we got here) / Anthony D. King ; Modernism across hemispheres, or, taking internationalism seriously / Mark Crinson ; Modernism & contemporaneity in architecture : peripheries & centres / Leon van Schaik ; Entangled histories of modern architecture / Duanfang Lu ; East, west, high, low : how Brazilian modernist vernacular problematizes it all / Fernando Luiz Lara -- (Dis)locating modernisms in the world. (Re-)searching modernism : Indonesia after decolonization / Abidin Kusno ; Simultaneous modernities : contemporary architecture in India / Rahul Mehrotra ; Opening the concept of critical architecture : the case of modern China and the issue of the state / Jianfei Zhu ; Agro-culture / Li Shiqiao ; Situated modernism : the production of locality in Africa / Iain Low ; Politics of greening : spatial constructions of the public in Singapore / Eunice Seng ; Some reflections on hospitality and cosmopolitanism within the context of the early Republican project of modernization in Turkey / Zeynep Mennan ; Brazilian architecture, modern tradition, contemporary culture : other Brazilian modernities of the 1950-1970s / Ruth Verde Zein -- Reflecting/refracting modernism. Commentary : Multiple modernisms and modernities / Randolf S. David ; Commentary : Centre and periphery, a singular modernism and studying modern cultural production / C.J. W.-L. Lee ; Commentary : Mobility of modernism / Chua Beng Huat. "This book is an essential resource for understanding architectural modernism outside its "western" regions and mindsets. Its in-depth discussion and insights will be invaluable to specialists, academics and graduate students. It is also comprehensive enough to be used as a textbook for undergraduate students, and general enough for practitioners and the curious general reader."--P. [4] of cover. |