Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Crinson, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138039659 ISBN 13: 9781138039650

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003:  Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and the new dispositions of nations and nationalities which have succeeded the old European empires remains obscure. In this, the first book to examine the interactions between modern architecture, imperialism and post-imperialism, Mark Crinson looks at the architecture of the last years of the British Empire, and during its prolonged dissolution and aftermath. Taking a number of case studies from Britain, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, India and Malaysia, he investigates the ambitions of the people who commissioned the buildings, the training and role of architects, and the interaction of the architecture and its changing social and cultural contexts. This book raises questions about the nature of modernism and its roles that look far beyond empire and towards the post-imperial.

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About the Author

Mark Crinson is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (Routledge, 1996) and co-author (with Jules Lubbock) of Architecture - Art or Profession? Three Hundred Years of Architectural Training in Britain (Manchester University Press, 1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138039659
• ISBN 13: 9781138039650
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254