Third world modernism: architecture, development and identity

Duanfang Lu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney."--Jacket.

Creating new openings for cross-cultural analysis of modernism, this provocative book has a key place in the historiography of modern architecture in non-Western societies.

"The first volume to map multiple positions on architectural modernism across the developing world, this book offers an international perspective on the practices and consequences of modernist architecture in the mid-twentieth century. Presenting fresh case studies from Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East, experts in this volume challenge canonical architecture historiography which identifies the West as the sole yardstick to measure the beginning and end, success and failure, of modernism. They show that modernism in Third World nations took trajectories radically different from those in developed societies during the same historical period. The intersections between modernist architecture, globalism, developmentalism, nationalism, and post-colonialism are explored. Chapters illustrate modernism's part in the construction of national and cultural identity, and the geo-historical entanglements of nations.

The other way around : the modernist movement in Brazil / Daniela Sandler -- Depoliticizing group GAMMA : contesting modernism in Morocco / Aziza Chaouni -- Agrupación Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group : architecture and the city in the Peruvian modern project / Sharif S. Kahatt -- Campus architecutre as nation building : Israeli architect Arieh Sharon's Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria / Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler -- Modernity and revolution : the architecture of Ceylon's twentieth-century exhibitions / Anoma Pieris -- This is not an American house : good sense modernism in 1950s Turkey / Elâ Kaçel -- Modernity transfers : the MoMA and postcolonial India / Farhan Sirajul Karim -- Building a colonial technoscientific network : tropical architecture, building science and the politics of decolonization / Jiat-hwee Chang -- Otto Koenigsberger and the tropicalization of British architectural culture / Vandana Baweja -- Epilogue : Third world modernism, or just modernism : towards a cosmopolitan reading of modernism / Vikramāditya Prakāsh.