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258 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm
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Paris : Bouchène, [2011]
Paris : Bouchène, [2011]
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Alger, politiques urbaines : 1846-1958 / Zohra Hakimi.
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258 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm
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S'appuyant sur des plans et des documents photographiques inédits, cet ouvrage ne prétend pas dresser un plan exhaustif de l'histoire urbaine de Tunis de 1800 à 1950. Il propose plutôt une introduction au patrimoine urbain de cette période, mettant en relief les principales oeuvres architecturales qui y ont vu le jour. Le lecteur découvrira les différentes tendances qui(...)
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S'appuyant sur des plans et des documents photographiques inédits, cet ouvrage ne prétend pas dresser un plan exhaustif de l'histoire urbaine de Tunis de 1800 à 1950. Il propose plutôt une introduction au patrimoine urbain de cette période, mettant en relief les principales oeuvres architecturales qui y ont vu le jour. Le lecteur découvrira les différentes tendances qui(...)
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April 2007, Tunis
April 2007, Tunis
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Tunis 1800-1950 : portrait architectural et urbain
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S'appuyant sur des plans et des documents photographiques inédits, cet ouvrage ne prétend pas dresser un plan exhaustif de l'histoire urbaine de Tunis de 1800 à 1950. Il propose plutôt une introduction au patrimoine urbain de cette période, mettant en relief les principales oeuvres architecturales qui y ont vu le jour. Le lecteur découvrira les différentes tendances qui ont modelé l'environnement architectural et urbain du centre de Tunis tel que nous le connaissons aujourd'hui.
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S'appuyant sur des plans et des documents photographiques inédits, cet ouvrage ne prétend pas dresser un plan exhaustif de l'histoire urbaine de Tunis de 1800 à 1950. Il propose plutôt une introduction au patrimoine urbain de cette période, mettant en relief les principales oeuvres architecturales qui y ont vu le jour. Le lecteur découvrira les différentes tendances qui ont modelé l'environnement architectural et urbain du centre de Tunis tel que nous le connaissons aujourd'hui.
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April 2007, Tunis
April 2007, Tunis
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
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January 2014
January 2014
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The architecture of Shivdatt Sharma
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
The architecture of Shivdatt Sharma
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
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January 2014
January 2014
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Ce nouvel ouvrage de Jean-Philippe et Dominique Lenclos explore l’étonnante diversité des décors de façade et poursuit la recherche que ces auteurs ont engagée depuis les années 1960 sur la « géographie de la couleur » dans l’habitat vernaculaire. L’ornementation de la façade prend des aspects très différents d’un lieu à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre, selon les matériaux(...)
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Ce nouvel ouvrage de Jean-Philippe et Dominique Lenclos explore l’étonnante diversité des décors de façade et poursuit la recherche que ces auteurs ont engagée depuis les années 1960 sur la « géographie de la couleur » dans l’habitat vernaculaire. L’ornementation de la façade prend des aspects très différents d’un lieu à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre, selon les matériaux(...)
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May 2007, Paris
May 2007, Paris
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Maisons du monde : couleurs et décors de l'habitat traditionnel
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Ce nouvel ouvrage de Jean-Philippe et Dominique Lenclos explore l’étonnante diversité des décors de façade et poursuit la recherche que ces auteurs ont engagée depuis les années 1960 sur la « géographie de la couleur » dans l’habitat vernaculaire. L’ornementation de la façade prend des aspects très différents d’un lieu à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre, selon les matériaux employés, la morphologie architecturale et les goûts des habitants, qui expriment leur savoir-faire et leur créativité, mais aussi leur identité, sur les murs de leur maison. La plupart des décors naissent spontanément de l’utilisation des matériaux disponibles sur place et de leur mise en œuvre spécifique. La terre humide se prête aisément à toutes sortes d’incisions, de dessins, de motifs en relief, d’incrustations et, quand elle est sèche, au revêtement d’enduits ou de peintures de couleur. Le bois est sculpté, découpé ou peint. La brique et la pierre enrichissent les façades des nuances de leurs teintes et de leurs textures, ainsi que du dessin de leur assemblage. Enfin, la céramique peut donner lieu à de savantes compositions colorées, abstraites ou figuratives. Ces décors sont le fruit d’une tradition, d’une époque, d’une mode, d’une conjoncture sociale, historique, économique ou politique ; ils font partie d’un rituel religieux, ils illustrent une profession. Toujours, ils traduisent la culture bien particulière d’un groupe humain. À travers une quinzaine d’études en Europe (Suisse, Allemagne, Belgique, France, Grèce, Portugal) et dans le reste du monde (Indonésie, Niger, Égypte, Tunisie, Yémen, Inde, États-Unis, Afrique du Sud), les façades des maisons expriment de façon pas toujours spectaculaire, mais toujours significative, et avec une diversité surprenante, la créativité de l’homme, son besoin instinctif de personnaliser et d’embellir, même de façon modeste, son environnement immédiat. Ces études, datées, constituent un état des lieux à un moment donné de l’histoire d’une communauté villageoise, d’une ethnie ou d’un peuple, sur le patrimoine chromatique, artisanal et artistique de son habitat quotidien. En ce sens, elles font œuvre de mémoire. En effet, les décors de façade, comme les palettes chromatiques, sont sujets à évolution, voire même à disparition totale. Pourtant, ils constituent non seulement un véritable trésor de formes, de dessins, de couleurs et de symboles qu’il convient de faire vivre en tant qu’éléments précieux du patrimoine architectural et culturel mondial, mais aussi une inépuisable source d’inspiration pour tous les métiers d’art.
Maisons du monde : couleurs et décors de l'habitat traditionnel
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Ce nouvel ouvrage de Jean-Philippe et Dominique Lenclos explore l’étonnante diversité des décors de façade et poursuit la recherche que ces auteurs ont engagée depuis les années 1960 sur la « géographie de la couleur » dans l’habitat vernaculaire. L’ornementation de la façade prend des aspects très différents d’un lieu à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre, selon les matériaux employés, la morphologie architecturale et les goûts des habitants, qui expriment leur savoir-faire et leur créativité, mais aussi leur identité, sur les murs de leur maison. La plupart des décors naissent spontanément de l’utilisation des matériaux disponibles sur place et de leur mise en œuvre spécifique. La terre humide se prête aisément à toutes sortes d’incisions, de dessins, de motifs en relief, d’incrustations et, quand elle est sèche, au revêtement d’enduits ou de peintures de couleur. Le bois est sculpté, découpé ou peint. La brique et la pierre enrichissent les façades des nuances de leurs teintes et de leurs textures, ainsi que du dessin de leur assemblage. Enfin, la céramique peut donner lieu à de savantes compositions colorées, abstraites ou figuratives. Ces décors sont le fruit d’une tradition, d’une époque, d’une mode, d’une conjoncture sociale, historique, économique ou politique ; ils font partie d’un rituel religieux, ils illustrent une profession. Toujours, ils traduisent la culture bien particulière d’un groupe humain. À travers une quinzaine d’études en Europe (Suisse, Allemagne, Belgique, France, Grèce, Portugal) et dans le reste du monde (Indonésie, Niger, Égypte, Tunisie, Yémen, Inde, États-Unis, Afrique du Sud), les façades des maisons expriment de façon pas toujours spectaculaire, mais toujours significative, et avec une diversité surprenante, la créativité de l’homme, son besoin instinctif de personnaliser et d’embellir, même de façon modeste, son environnement immédiat. Ces études, datées, constituent un état des lieux à un moment donné de l’histoire d’une communauté villageoise, d’une ethnie ou d’un peuple, sur le patrimoine chromatique, artisanal et artistique de son habitat quotidien. En ce sens, elles font œuvre de mémoire. En effet, les décors de façade, comme les palettes chromatiques, sont sujets à évolution, voire même à disparition totale. Pourtant, ils constituent non seulement un véritable trésor de formes, de dessins, de couleurs et de symboles qu’il convient de faire vivre en tant qu’éléments précieux du patrimoine architectural et culturel mondial, mais aussi une inépuisable source d’inspiration pour tous les métiers d’art.
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May 2007, Paris
May 2007, Paris
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Cities of change Addis Ababa: transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century
Cities of change Addis Ababa: transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century
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Economic strengthening and the developments associated with it, such as population growth, rural flight, and the explosive growth of cities, pose enormous challenges for city planners in urban centers throughout the world. But clumsy "test-tube" urban plans like those developed for China in part by German planners have shown that different standards and rules apply in the(...)
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Economic strengthening and the developments associated with it, such as population growth, rural flight, and the explosive growth of cities, pose enormous challenges for city planners in urban centers throughout the world. But clumsy "test-tube" urban plans like those developed for China in part by German planners have shown that different standards and rules apply in the(...)
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December 2009
December 2009
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Cities of change Addis Ababa: transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century
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Economic strengthening and the developments associated with it, such as population growth, rural flight, and the explosive growth of cities, pose enormous challenges for city planners in urban centers throughout the world. But clumsy "test-tube" urban plans like those developed for China in part by German planners have shown that different standards and rules apply in the non-European world than in Europe s organically developed urban structures. This manual analyzes contemporary urban phenomena in economic growth regions using the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Abeba as an example, and presents a catalogue of sustainable strategies for city planning practice in the Second and Third Worlds. In the process, it provides planners with generally applicable methods and tools that are usable at the design stage and equip them to develop and deploy dynamic planning and project management processes. To this end, it illuminates such topical subjects as the changing agrarian and industrial landscape, the activation of urban wastelands, and the increasing density of urban hubs. In addition, it uses real projects as examples to highlight avenues for practical implementation.
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Economic strengthening and the developments associated with it, such as population growth, rural flight, and the explosive growth of cities, pose enormous challenges for city planners in urban centers throughout the world. But clumsy "test-tube" urban plans like those developed for China in part by German planners have shown that different standards and rules apply in the non-European world than in Europe s organically developed urban structures. This manual analyzes contemporary urban phenomena in economic growth regions using the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Abeba as an example, and presents a catalogue of sustainable strategies for city planning practice in the Second and Third Worlds. In the process, it provides planners with generally applicable methods and tools that are usable at the design stage and equip them to develop and deploy dynamic planning and project management processes. To this end, it illuminates such topical subjects as the changing agrarian and industrial landscape, the activation of urban wastelands, and the increasing density of urban hubs. In addition, it uses real projects as examples to highlight avenues for practical implementation.
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December 2009
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A culture of stone
A culture of stone
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and(...)
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and(...)
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November 2010
November 2010
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A culture of stone
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry.
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry.
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November 2010
November 2010
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Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.
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Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.
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August 2010
August 2010
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Sun tropes: Sun City and (post-)apartheid culture in South Africa
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Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.
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Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.
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August 2010
August 2010
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
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September 2013
September 2013
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Free city
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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September 2013
September 2013
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon(...)
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon(...)
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April 2005, London
April 2005, London
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Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon conventional understandings of it. Conventional discourse in the West defines modern as the antithesis of that which is 'not-modern' or is 'traditional.' Many scholars have debated the significance of the words and most agree that the very word 'tradition' was a modernist creation that variously implied backwardness, threatened by change, resistance to innovation. The first part of this book reflects on the transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and calls into question accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as 'traditional' and 'non-Western' architecture. The second part is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It expands upon conventional understandings of modernity in a way that wrenches free the city's architecture and the society from the objectified realm of the exotic while also acknowledging cultural conditions of modernity and modern architecture outside the West. Stepping outside Western canons, this project looks at late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture to include them in a conversation on architecture that has typically focused on Western Europe and North America. Finally, the author seeks out the 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven, and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might label a perfectly coherent 'traditional' built environment; or in the influence of local society and institutions on forms that appear modern by conventional standards in the West.
Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism
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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning. Through a study of Delhi, the author challenges some prevalent dichotomies and myths in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that expands upon conventional understandings of it. Conventional discourse in the West defines modern as the antithesis of that which is 'not-modern' or is 'traditional.' Many scholars have debated the significance of the words and most agree that the very word 'tradition' was a modernist creation that variously implied backwardness, threatened by change, resistance to innovation. The first part of this book reflects on the transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and calls into question accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as 'traditional' and 'non-Western' architecture. The second part is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It expands upon conventional understandings of modernity in a way that wrenches free the city's architecture and the society from the objectified realm of the exotic while also acknowledging cultural conditions of modernity and modern architecture outside the West. Stepping outside Western canons, this project looks at late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture to include them in a conversation on architecture that has typically focused on Western Europe and North America. Finally, the author seeks out the 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven, and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might label a perfectly coherent 'traditional' built environment; or in the influence of local society and institutions on forms that appear modern by conventional standards in the West.
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April 2005, London
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New York : Grasshopper Film, [2018]
New York : Grasshopper Film, [2018]
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Uppland / directed by Edward Lawrenson ; written and produced by Killian Doherty and Edward Lawrenson.
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