Main entry:

Mumtaz, Kamil Khan.

Title & Author:

Modernity and tradition : contemporary architecture in Pakistan / Kamil Khan Mumtaz.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

xviii, 132 pages, 104 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

[The jubilee series]

Notes:
Series statement on jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Form in Architecture -- Pop Architecture -- New Lamps for Old -- Mistree Haji Ghulam Hussain -- The Islamic Debate -- A Case for Indigenous Development -- A Search for Architecture based on Appropriate Technology -- Future Directions -- Traditionalism and Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan -- Crafts in Islamic Architecture -- Vernacular, Religion and the Contemporary Expression -- Architecture in Cities: Present and Futures -- Third World Cities -- Habitations -- The City -- Economic, Cultural, and Political Dimensions -- Architecture in Pakistan -- Fifty Years.

Summary:

The book explores some of the central issues in the current discourse on transitional cultures, in a world increasingly dominated by technological innovations and rapidly changing values. Critiquing modernity as a Euro-centric ideology which has little relevance or meaning in the context of cultures with different experiences of history, sensitivities, and belief systems, the book presents the traditional perspective, rooted in perennial wisdom, as an alternative framework. Here not only do art and architecture have a positive and constructive role and function, but human endeavour generally can find a purpose and direction.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195778537
9780195778533

Subject:

Architecture Pakistan History.
Islamic architecture Pakistan.
Architecture Pākistān.
Architecture islamique Pākistān.
Architecture Pākistān 20e siècle.
Architecture Pākistān Histoire.
Architecture
Islamic architecture
Architecture Pakistan.
Architecture islamique Pakistan.
Architecture 20e siècle Pakistan.
Pakistan

Form/genre:

Writings.
History

Added entries:

Jubilee series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207893
Call No.: NA44.M9625.A35 1999
Status: Available