Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities /
"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 f...
| Other Authors: | Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932- (Editor), Chang, Jiat-Hwee. (Editor) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Call Number: | NA680 .N67 2012 |
| Institution: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Library: | Main Library |
| Record Id / ISBN-0: | ppap.53045 / 9789814365949 |
| Online Public Access Catalog: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Published: |
Singapore :
World Scientific Pub.,
2012.
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Table of 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.