Main entry:

Across space and time (Transaction Publishers)

Title & Author:

Across space and time : architecture and the politics of modernity / Patrick Haughey, editor.

Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xxv, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identity tectonics: contested modernities of Java and Bali / Robert Cowherd -- Carceral capital: the prison industrial complex in Colonial India / Mira Rai Waits -- The city as business plan: Bata from Batangar to the Calcutta Riverside / Markéta Brezovská -- Sir John Summerson and the art of modern storytelling: radio, architecture, and democratic culture / Shundana Yusuf -- Drawing out a modern point of view: projecting architecture through simultaneity, abstraction, dissection, and Montage / Hilary Bryon -- A found "Desert" and an imagined "Garden": modernity, landscapes, and architecture in Southern Georgia's Longleaf Pine Forest, 1865-1920 / Mark V. Wetherington -- "Houses Will Be Built Everywhere": modernity and urban space in the press, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1884-1914 / James William Goodwin Junior -- Le Corbusier, architecture, and Eugenics: from France to Brazil and back / Fabiola López-Durán and Nikki Moore -- Expressions of political power: Case del fascio, modernism, and vernacular traditions / Lucy Maulsby -- Zoning and the controlled space of modernity / Matthew Heins -- Held in suspension: competing discourses on urban modernity in 1960s Slovenia, Yugoslavia / Veronic E. Aplenc -- The Triconch and stibadium in Late Roman and Early Christian architecture: a consideration of assertions of modernity / Lynda Mulvin -- When art history was global: Helen Gardner's Art through the ages in 1948 / Barbara Jaffee -- The politics of architecture and history in the anthropocene / Patrick Haughey.

Summary:

Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, this book provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer than previously conceived. Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer than previously conceived. This volume moves through space and time to illustrate the way global modernity has been negotiated through architecture, urban planning, design pedagogies, preservation, and art history in diverse locations around the world. Bringing together emerging and established architecture and art history scholars, each chapter focuses on a particular site where modernity was defined, challenged, or reinterpreted. The contributors examine how architectures, landscapes, and design thinking influence and are influenced by conflicts between cultural, economic, technological, and political forces. By invoking well-researched histories to ground their work in a post-colonial critique, they closely examine many prevailing myths of modernity. Notable topics include emerging architectural history in the Indian subcontinent and the connection between climate change and architecture.

ISBN:

9781412863391 (hardcover)
1412863392 (hardcover)
9781412863629 (eBook)

Subject:

Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture and society History 21st century.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 21e siècle.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architecture and society.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Haughey, Patrick, editor.

Architecture and the politics of modernity

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295433
Call No.: BIB 241654
Status: Available