Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415564573 ISBN 13: 9780415564571

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism’s part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and cultural identity. Architectural modernism is far more than another instance of Western expansionist aspirations; it has been developed in cross-cultural spaces and variously localized into nation-building programs and social welfare projects.

The first volume to address countries right across the developing world, this book has a key place in the historiography of modern architecture, dealing with non-Western traditions.

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About the Author

Duanfang Lu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney and author of Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949–2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415564573
• ISBN 13: 9780415564571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Lu Duanfang