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"This anthology collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture, that is informed by postcolonial theory and its contemporary derivatives such as posthumanism. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize that canon using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks it asks, what might a genuinely 'global' history of architectural modernism begin to look like? The chapters explore the weaknesses of normative interpretations of modernism and proposes alternatives to them. It offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern, and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are covered. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial topic"--

Imperialism and architecture. --- Modern movement (Architecture). --- Architecture --- Modern Movement --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Postcolonialism --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- Impérialisme et architecture --- Postcolonialisme

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"In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after the Second World War, architects and planners found extensive opportunities in new international institutions--such as the World Bank, the UN, and the Ford Foundation--and helped shape new models of global intervention that displaced the burden of change onto the inhabitants. Muzaffar argues that architecture in this domain didn't just symbolically represent power, but formed the material domain through which new modes of power acquired sense. Looking at a series of architectural projects across the world, from housing in Ghana to village planning in Nigeria and urban planning in Venezuela and Pakistan, Muzaffar explores how architects and planners shaped new ideas of time, land, climate, and the decolonizing body, making them appear as sources of untapped value. What resulted, Muzaffar argues, is a widespread belief in spontaneous Third World "development" without capital, which continues to foreclose any global discussion of colonial theft"--

Imperialisme et architecture --- Decolonisation. --- Architecture --- Decolonization. --- Architecture and state. --- Decolonization --- Economic development projects --- Imperialism and architecture --- City planning --- Histoire --- Politique gouvernementale. --- History --- Political aspects --- post-World War II, Bretton Woods, Materiality, Race, Tropical Architecture, Sustainability, Design, Self-help, Scarcity, Value, Risk, Quality, Quantity, Pattern, Core, Roof, Climatic, Modernism, Land, Property, Indirect Rule.