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A Way of Becoming
8 April 2024
A Way of Becoming
Jenni Hakovirta, Nicole Luke, and Naomi Ratte explore the values of Indigenous building
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
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7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
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Paris : Mille et une nuits, 2004.
Survivre au développement : de la décolonisation de l'imaginaire économique à la construction d'une société alternative / Serge Latouche.
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Montréal, Qc : Lux Éditeur, [2020], ©2020
Réchauffement planétaire et douceur de vivre : road trip en territoire pétrolifère / Matt Hern et Am Johal ; illustrations de Joe Sacco ; traduit de l'anglais par Julien Besse.
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Park Books, ©2014.
Casablanca Chandigarh : bilans d'une modernisation / Tom Avermaete, Maristella Casciato ; missions photographiques de Yto Barrada, Takashi Homma.
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144 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
Decentring the museum : contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies / Nina Möntmann ; translated from the German by Gerrit Jackson.
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[San Rafael] : ORO Editions, [2019], ©2019
Dialectic. VII, Decolonizing architectural pedagogy / edited by: Anna Goodman, Shundana Yusaf ; text by: Mira [Mimi] Locher [and thirteen others].
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