Lahore after modernism : architecture and its histories in Pakistan / Chris Moffat.

Main entry:

Moffat, Chris (Christopher James), author.

Title & Author:

Lahore after modernism : architecture and its histories in Pakistan / Chris Moffat.

Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2026]

Description:

viii, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

South Asia in motion

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning from Lahore -- Yasmeen Lari and the problem of home -- Kamil Khan Mumtaz and the time of building -- Nayyar Ali Dada's dream of the public -- Amjad Mukhtar's unfinished monument -- The matter of inheritance.

Summary:

"In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future - a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional histories was fiercely evident in Lahore, the centuries-old capital of Punjab and a city scarred by the partition of British India. Studying its streets, neighborhoods and historic buildings, Pakistani architects came to challenge the global consensus around "development" and its close association with modernist architecture. Their designs and structures became opportunities for thinking anew about the power of history, the boundaries of the nation, and the constitution of community in a postcolonial polity. This book is a pioneering study of architecture and the politics of construction, destruction and conservation in urban Pakistan. Chris Moffat introduces Pakistan's first postcolonial generation of architects - figures born around the time of partition, who began practicing in the 1960s and whose early careers navigated popular rebellions, military coups and emergent, pan-Islamic alignments. Moving from housing schemes to monuments, shrines to shopping malls, Moffat forges a new conversation between histories of architecture and the history of ideas in South Asia, and locates Lahore at the center of debates around contemporary urbanization, postcolonial aesthetics, and the ethics of dwelling in the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781503646254 hardcover
1503646254 hardcover
9781503646759 paperback
1503646750 paperback
electronic book
9781503646766

Subject:

Architecture Pakistan Lahore History.
Architects Pakistan Lahore History 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Pakistan Lahore.
Architecture and history Pakistan Lahore.
Architectes Pākistān Lahore Histoire 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Pākistān Lahore.
Architecture et histoire Pākistān Lahore.
Architecture Pākistān Lahore Histoire.
Architects
Architecture
Architecture and history
Modern movement (Architecture)
Pakistan Lahore

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

South Asia in motion.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326571
Call No.: 326571
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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