THIRD WORLD MODERNISM: Architecture Development and Identity

Description

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.

CONTENTS

Introduction

• Duanfang Lu: Architecture, Development, and Identity

Part I: The Will of the Age

• Daniela Sandler: The Other Way Around: The Modernist Movement in Brazil
• Aziza Chaouni: Contesting Modernism in Morocco
• Sharif S. Kahatt: Agrupacion Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group: Architecture and the City in the Peruvian Modern Project

Part II: Building the Nation

• Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler: Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli Architect Arieh Sharon’s Obademi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
• Anoma Pieris: Modernity and Revolution: The Architecture of Ceylon’s 20th Century Exhibitions
• Elâ Kaçel: This Is Not an American House: Good Sense Modernism in 1950s Turkey

Part III: Entangled Modernities

• Farhan Sirajul Karim: Modernity Transfers: The MoMA and Postcolonial India
• Jiatt-Hwee Chang: Building a (Post)Colonial Technoscientific Network: Tropical Architecture, Building Science and the Politics of Decolonization
• Vandana Baweja: Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of British Architectural Culture

Epilogue

• Vikramaditya Prakash: Third World Modernism, or Just Modernism: Towards a Cosmopolitan Reading of Modernism

304 pages, b&w ills / 17,5 x 24,5 cm / English