Modern architecture and the end of empire
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Modern architecture and the end of empire
(British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings)
Ashgate, c2003
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index
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Description
Modernist architecture claimed to be the "international style" but the relationship between modernism and the new dispositions of nations and nationalities which have succeeded the old European empires remains obscure. This book examines the interactions between modern architecture, imperialism and post-imperialism. Mark Crinson looks at the architecture of the last years of the British Empire, and during its prolonged dissolution and aftermath. Taking a number of case studies from Britain, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, India and Malaysia, he investigates the ambitions of the people who commissioned the buildings, the training and role of architects, and the interaction of the architecture and its changing social and cultural contexts. This book raises questions about the nature of modernism and its roles that look far beyond empire and towards the post-imperial.
Table of Contents
- Imperial panorama - panorama of architecture
- The double end - training architects for the Empire
- Oil and architecture
- The National Pavilion - "A building which needs no name"
- The commonwealth of architecture
- Dialects of internationalism - architecture in Ghana 1945-1966
- The view from Penang Hill: Modernism and nationalism in Malaysia
- Discrepant cosmopolitanism.
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