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The postcolonial world is currently undergoing rapid development and dramatic change. Radical interventions are drastically altering the physical landscape of these regions, resulting in new and unfamiliar environments. While these changes employ the most current structural technologies, building types, and planning ideals, the critical discourse used to analyze these developments continues to focus on traditional dualities such as West/non-West, modern/traditional, and global/regional.The eight essays in this collection aspire to explore new languages for rethinking contemporary architectural and urban conditions in the postcolonial world. In so doing, the authors challenge the convictions central to most studies of non-western architecture--that is, the pursuit of essential singular identities and the glorification of immemorial pasts. Each essay investigates a particular textual, architectural, or urban site within larger concerns related to the postcolonial condition. Topics include rereading Beatriz Colomina's text on Adolf Loos's house for Josephine Baker; analyzing political and ethical aspects of Jean Nouvel's Arab World Institute, and exposing the cacophony of Pacific Rim cities. For all those interested in the present-and future-global environment, Postcolonial Spaces is an important exploration.

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From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world. The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity. Von 1960 bis 1980 erlebten Ost-und Westeuropa eine Bauproduktion von bis dahin unbekanntem Ausmaß. Kybernetik, Planungswissenschaft und Soziologie sowie neue Möglichkeiten von Technologie und Produktion eröffneten in Architektur und Raumplanung ein Denken in Prozessen, Systemen und großen Maßstäben, das technokratische und utopische Konzepte begünstigte. Architekten und Planer verstanden sich zunehmend als Gestalter umfassender Infra- und Megastrukturen einer technisierten Lebenswelt. Das internationale Autorenteam behandelt diese Entwicklungen vor dem Hintergrund des Wissenstransfers zwischen Ost und West. Es konstatiert einen bis heute nachwirkenden Umschwung: Rezession, gesellschaftliche Umbrüche und Umweltprobleme führten zur Kritik an bisherigen Konzeptionen von Modernität.

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This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives.Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.

Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Architecture and society --- Aesthetics --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors