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Rethinking Global Modernism Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial 1st Edition

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Full Title

Rethinking Global Modernism Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial 1st Edition

Author(s)

Vikramaditya Prakash

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781000471632, 9780367636708, 9781003120209, 9780367636715, 9781000471564

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely “global” history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism’s normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection 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 engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial and developing topic.