Architecture in development : systems and the emergence of the global South
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Architecture in development : systems and the emergence of the global South
Routledge, 2022
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Description
This extensive, edited volume investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "development" after WWII.
The essays encompass countries as diverse as Israel, Ghana, Greece, Belgium, France, India, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, the Philippines, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Zambia, and Canada.
The subject matter is increasingly taught as part of a broader turn to globalize the field of architecture studies, incorporating hitherto unacknowledged geographies primarily from the global south, with a focus on how architecture production is part of technical, economic, and political processes.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Developmental time 1. Incompletion: on more than a certain tendency in postwar architecture and planning 2. God's gamble: self-help architecture and the housing of risk Part II: Expertise 3. Planning for an uncertain present: action planning in Singapore, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone 4. To which revolution? The National School of Agriculture and the center for the improvement of corn and wheat in Texcoco and El Batan, Mexico, 1924-1968 5. From rice research to coconut capital 6. "The city as a housing project": training for human settlements at the Leuven PGCHS in the 1970s-1980s Part III: Bureaucratic organization 7. Folders, patterns, and villages: pastoral technics and the Center for Environmental Structure 8. The technical state: programs, positioning, and the integration of architects in political society in Mexico, 1945-1955 9. "Foreigners in filmmaking" Part IV: Technological transfer 10. The making of architectural design as Solgye: integrating science, industry, and expertise in postwar Korea 11. Infrastructures of dependency: US Steel's architectural assemblages on Indigenous lands 12. Reinventing earth architecture in the age of development Part V: Designing the rural 13. Globalizing the village: development media, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the United Nations in India 14. "Ruralizing" Zambia: Doxiadis Associates' systems-based planning and developmentalism in the nonindustrialized South 15. Food capital: fantasies of abundance and Nelson Rockefeller's architectures of development in Venezuela, 1940s-1960s 16. The Jewish Agency's open cowsheds: Israeli third way rural design, 1956-1968 17. Floors and ceilings: the architectonics of accumulation in the Green Revolution Part VI: Land 18. Policy regionalism and the limits of translation in land economics 19. Leisure and geo-economics: the Hilton and other development regimes in the Mediterranean south 20. Antiparochi and (its) architects: Greek architectures in failure
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