Title & Author:

Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities / edited by William S.W. Lim & Jiat-Hwee Chang ; [organized and sponsored by Architectural Association Asia, Singapore Institute of Architects].

Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Pub., 2012.

Description:

vii, 216 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revised papers from the conference "Non West Modernist Past", held 2011 January 15-16 in Singapore.--Page vi.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
Interrogating modernism and modernities. Modernism : where we're at (and how we got here) / by Anthony D. King -- Modernism across hemispheres, or, taking internationalism seriously / by Mark Crinson -- Modernism & contemporaneity in architecture : peripheries & centres / by Leon van Schaik -- Entangled histories of modern architecture / by Duanfang Lu -- East, west, high, low : how Brazilian modernist vernacular problematizes it all / by Fernando Luiz Lara -- (Dis)locating modernisms in the world. (Re- )searching modernism : Indonesia after decolonization / by Abidin Kusno -- Simultaneous modernities : contemporary architecture in India / by Rahul Mehrotra -- Opening the concept of critical architecture : the case of modern China and the issue of the state / by Jianfei Zhu -- Agro-culture / by Li Shiqiao -- Situated modernism : the production of locality in Africa / by Iain Low -- Politics of greening : spatial constructions of the public in Singapore / by Eunice Seng -- Some reflections on hospitality and cosmopolitanism within the context of the early Republican project of modernization in Turkey / by Zeynep Mennan -- Brazilian architecture, modern tradition, contemporary culture : other Brazilian modernities of the 1950-1970s / by Ruth Verde Zein -- Reflecting/ refracting modernism. Commentary : Multiple modernisms and modernities / by Randolf S. David -- Commentary : Centre and periphery, a singular modernism and studying modern cultural production / by C.J.W.-L. Wee -- Commentary : Mobility of modernism / by Chua Beng Huat.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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 for undergraduate students, and general enough for practitioners and the curious general reader."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Related Electronic Resource: Web page with scanned depiction of table of contents
Related Electronic Resource: Web page with scanned depiction of table of contents

ISBN:

9789814365949 (pbk.)
9814365947 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Historiography.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Asia.
Architecture Africa.
Architecture Latin America.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Historiographie.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture Asie.
Architecture Afrique.
Architecture Amérique latine.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Architekturtheorie
Geschichtsschreibung
Moderne
Modernism (arkitektur)
Arkitektur historia 1900-talet.
Arkitektur historiografi.
Africa.
Asia.
Latin America.

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)

Added entries:

Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-2023.
Chang, Jiat-Hwee.
Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932- editor.
Chang, Jiat-Hwee editor.
Architectural Association Asia sponsoring body.
Singapore Institute of Architects sponsoring body.

On architecture and modernities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317810
Call No.: 317810
Status: Available