Main entry:

Crinson, Mark.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture and the end of empire / Mark Crinson.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.

Description:

xiii, 228 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Series:

British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
Imperial panorama: panorama of architecture : Empire as image ; Imperial and post-imperial paragons ; The watershed ; Utopian arid dystopian modernism ; Late modernism and empire -- The double end: training architects for the empire : Baghdad and Liverpool ; Liverpool ; Egypt and Liverpool ; The double end ; Professionalization ; India -- Oil and architecture : The early development of Abadan ; Company town ; Projecting the company in London ; Designing Abadan ; Garden suburb -- The national pavilion: 'A Building Which Needs No Name' : Wembley, 1924-5 ; Paris, 1925 ; Antwerp, 1930, and Johannesburg, 1936 ; Paris, 1937 ; Glasgow, 1938 -- The commonwealth of architecture : The Imperial Institute ; The imperial subject ; Decolonization and the metropolis ; The Commonwealth Institute ; The Commonwealth subject -- Dialects of internationalism: architecture in Ghana, 1945-66 : Training architects in Ghana ; Tropical architecture ; Tropical architecture in Ghana ; New museum = new nation ; After independence -- The view from Penang Hill: modernism and nationalism in Malaysia : The 'Malayan' ; Modernizing nationalism ; The National Museum ; Modernism as post-colonialism ; The view from Penang Hill -- Conclusion : Discrepant cosmopolitanism.

Summary:

Mark Crinson's study is concerned with the relation between architecture and those events and processes that make up the so-called 'end of empire', the period when former colonies were decolonized and gained their independence from Great Britain.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754635104 (hardcover)
9780754635109 (hardcover)

Subject:

Commonwealth
Modern movement (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture, British colonial History 20th century.
Nationalism and architecture Great Britain.
Architecture, British colonial 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture coloniale britannique 20e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture coloniale britannique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, British colonial.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Nationalism and architecture.
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Postkolonialisme.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229592
Call No.: NA968.5.M64 C7 2003
Status: Available