Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities / edited by William S.W. Lim & Jiat-Hwee Chang ; [organized and sponsored by Architectural Association Asia, Singapore Institute of Architects].
- Additional Titles:
- On architecture and modernities
- Published:
- Singapore : World Scientific Pub., 2012.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-
Chang, Jiat-Hwee
- Contents:
- Interrogating modernism and modernities. Modernism : where we're at (and how we got here) / Anthony D. King ; Modernism across hemispheres, or, taking internationalism seriously / Mark Crinson ; Modernism & contemporaneity in architecture : peripheries & centres / Leon van Schaik ; Entangled histories of modern architecture / Duanfang Lu ; East, west, high, low : how Brazilian modernist vernacular problematizes it all / Fernando Luiz Lara -- (Dis)locating modernisms in the world. (Re-)searching modernism : Indonesia after decolonization / Abidin Kusno ; Simultaneous modernities : contemporary architecture in India / Rahul Mehrotra ; Opening the concept of critical architecture : the case of modern China and the issue of the state / Jianfei Zhu ; Agro-culture / Li Shiqiao ; Situated modernism : the production of locality in Africa / Iain Low ; Politics of greening : spatial constructions of the public in Singapore / Eunice Seng ; Some reflections on hospitality and cosmopolitanism within the context of the early Republican project of modernization in Turkey / Zeynep Mennan ; Brazilian architecture, modern tradition, contemporary culture : other Brazilian modernities of the 1950-1970s / Ruth Verde Zein -- Reflecting/refracting modernism. Commentary : Multiple modernisms and modernities / Randolf S. David ; Commentary : Centre and periphery, a singular modernism and studying modern cultural production / C.J. W.-L. Lee ; Commentary : Mobility of modernism / Chua Beng Huat.
- Summary:
- "This book is an essential resource for understanding architectural modernism outside its "western" regions and mindsets. Its in-depth discussion and insights will be invaluable to specialists, academics and graduate students. It is also comprehensive enough to be used as a textbook for undergraduate students, and general enough for practitioners and the curious general reader."--P. [4] of cover.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9789814365949
9814365947 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and Asian Studies; 2012
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