Main entry:

Osayimwese, Itohan, author.

Title & Author:

Colonialism and modern architecture in Germany / Itohan Osayimwese.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
© 2017

Description:

viii, 335 pages ; 27 cm.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-324) and index.
Expositions in German colonialism and German architecture -- The irresistible call of adventure : German architects and ethnography -- Heimatschutz and the competition for colonial architecture -- Reform and world's fair thinking at the 1914 Werkbund exhibition -- The colonial origins of modernist prefabrication -- Decolonizing the landscape of Colonial memory in Germany.

Summary:

This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. It argues that the rise of a new modern language of architecture within Germany during this period was shaped by the country's colonial and neo-colonial entanglements. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.

ISBN:

9780822945086 (hardcover)
0822945088

Subject:

BMBF-Statusseminar
Imperialism and architecture Germany History 19th century.
Imperialism and architecture Germany History 20th century.
Architecture and globalization Germany History 19th century.
Architecture and globalization Germany History 20th century.
Architecture Germany History 19th century.
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Architecture et mondialisation Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et mondialisation Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Imperialism and architecture.
Architecture.
Architecture and globalization.
Architektur
Fertighausindustrie
Kolonialausstellung
Kolonialismus
Kolonie
Germany.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295580
Call No.: BIB 241867
Status: Available