Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities /

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Other Authors: Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932- (Editor), Chang, Jiat-Hwee. (Editor)
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.