Third World Modernism Architecture, Development and Identity

Name: Third World Modernism Architecture, Development and Identity
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ISBN: 9780415564588

ISBN-10: 0415564581

ISBN-13: 9780415564588

Edition: 2011

Authors: Duanfang Lu

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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Illustration credits and sources



Introduction: architecture, modernity and identity in the Third World




The will of the age



The Other Way Around: the modernist movement in Brazil




Depoliticizing Group Gamma: contesting modernism in Morocco




Agrupaciï¿½n Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group: architecture and the city in the Peruvian modern project




Building the nation



Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli architect Arieh Sharon's Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria




Modernity and Revolution: The architecture of Ceylon's twentieth-century exhibitions




This is not an American House: good sense modernism in 1950s Turkey




Entangled Modernities



Modernity Transfers: the MoMA and postcolonial India




Building a Colonial Technoscientific Network: tropical architecture, building science and the politics of decolonization




Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of British Architectural Culture




Epilogue: Third World Modernism, or Just Modernism: towards a cosmopolitan reading of modernism



Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index