The author analyses architectural preservationists’ narrative strategies to remake the histories of what were designed as racialized “European” zones – in opposition to “Indigenous” zones – as part of the documentation, preservation, and addition...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.Recent developments at t...Loe edasi...
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, tho...Loe edasi...
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America. It does so by critically analyzing ideas and works within the context from where they emerge....Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438499215)
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination. Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspec...Loe edasi...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329818)
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism. An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis...Loe edasi...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330210)
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influe...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438499208)
From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of ar...Loe edasi...
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conce...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526142665)
Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain’s four-hundred year entanglement with global empi...Loe edasi...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329481)
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mi...Loe edasi...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329665)
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mi...Loe edasi...
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politic...Loe edasi...
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia a...Loe edasi...
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity and adaptive reuse in Latin America. It does so by critically analyzing ideas and work within the context from where they emerge. With...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198881247)
The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of t...Loe edasi...
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the unto...Loe edasi...
