Collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture
Over 100 black and white illustrations
Contributions from the US, UK, Europe and Australia
目次
Introduction
1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett)
PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives
2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil's Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real)
3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA's Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (Maria Gonzalez Pendas)
4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture's Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim)
5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek)
PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism 6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink)
7. Intra-action: Barad's "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak)
8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan)
PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism 9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie)
10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism's Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto's Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili)
11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain)
PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism 12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo)
13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux)
14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia's "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris)
PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism)
15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli)
16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber)
17. Provincializing ENI's Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto)
18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley)
Afterword
19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone)