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 modernisms 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.
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"Third World Modernism is a book which makes tremendous strides toward imagining a multivalent history of architecture sensitive to the particularities of place and the rich diversity of actors that produce it. The several examples of fine-grained historical research not only fill a void in the literature on the built environment, but systematically disassemble the certainties and centralities undergirding disciplinary readings of modernism." - Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
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Illustration credits and sources |
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1 Introduction: architecture, modernity and identity in the Third World |
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Part I The will of the age |
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2 The Other Way Around: the modernist movement in Brazil |
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3 Depoliticizing Group GAMMA: contesting modernism in Morocco |
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57 | (28) |
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4 Agrupacion Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group: architecture and the city in the Peruvian modern project |
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85 | (26) |
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Part II Building the nation |
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5 Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli architect Arieh Sharon's Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, lle-lfe, Nigeria |
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113 | (28) |
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6 Modernity and Revolution: the architecture of Ceylon's twentieth-century exhibitions |
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141 | (24) |
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7 This is not an American House: good sense modernism in 1950s Turkey |
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165 | (22) |
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Part III Entangled modernities |
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187 | (84) |
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8 Modernity Transfers: the MoMA and postcolonial India |
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189 | (22) |
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9 Building a Colonial Technoscientific Network: tropical architecture, building science and the politics of decolonization |
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211 | (25) |
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10 Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of British Architectural Culture |
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236 | (19) |
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11 Epilogue: Third World Modernism, or Just Modernism: towards a cosmopolitan reading of modernism |
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255 | (16) |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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| Contributors |
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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, 19492005.
