Titre et auteur:

Colonial modern : aesthetics of the past--rebellions for the future / edited by Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, Marion Von Osten.

Publication:

London : Black Dog, 2010.

Description:

311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
"The book is result of the research and exhibition project: In the Desert of Modernity- Colonial Planning and After, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 29.08-26.10.2008"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Bernd M. Scherer -- 1. Negotiating modernity : In colonial modern worlds / Marion von Osten -- Colonialism and the critique of modernity / Serhat Karakayali -- Signs of reappropriation / Kader Attia -- Locating architecture, post-colonialism and culture: contextualisation in Algiers / Kahina Amal Djiar -- Culture, identity, and urbanism: a historical perspective / Nezar AlSayyad -- The Israeli "place" in East Jerusalem: how Israeli architects appropriated the Palestinian aesthetic / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- From the rainforest to the streets / Mark Crinson -- From high-rise to high-rise this-was-tomorrow.net / Labor k3000 Zürich -- The transit housing estates' struggle: stop the permanently provisional! / Mogniss H. Abdallah -- 2. The urban laboratory : Nomadic experts and travelling perspectives: colonial modernity and the epistemological shift in modern architecture culture / Tom Avermaete -- The concept of habitat: Écochard in Morocco / Monique Eleb -- A Moroccan habitat: building within a colonial context / Daniel Weiss -- "Architecture ou révolution": critical moderns and the search for a new urbanity in 1950s Algiers / André Loeckx and Tom Avermaete -- Security and freedom: reflections on Foucault / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- On clandestine housing / an interview with Horia Serhane -- Public spaces in Moroccan cities / Françoise Navez-Bouchanine -- In the belly of the city / a conversation with Hassan Darsi -- 3. The postcolonial imaginary : Art history after globalisation: formations of the colonial modern / Kobena Mercer -- Adolf Loos and the colonial imaginary / Christian Kravagna -- Small paths, complex stories / Madeleine Bernstorff -- Tarzan and the scream of moderntiy: on the post-colonial in Mohamed Osfour's cinematic works / Brigitta Kuster -- Si essent in analogia: a meditation on this difference that might not be one / Valentin Mudimbe -- In the desert of modernity: colonial planning and after: the making of an exhibition / Marion von Osten.

Résumé:

"'Colonial Modern' is a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in architecture, as well as the intertwining of both in the context of colonialsim and decolonisation. It includes texts by specialists in the field and provides a strong visual representation of the subject."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781907317118 (pbk.)
1907317112 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Aesthetics.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Decolonization.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture Esthétique.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Décolonisation.
Architecture and Planning.
Moderne
Architektur
Stadtentwicklung
Wohnungsbau
Kolonialismus
Entkolonialisierung
Modernism (arkitektur)
Avkolonisering.

Vedettes secondaires:

Avermaete, Tom, editor.
Karakayali, Serhat, editor.
Osten, Marion von, editor.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 274189
Cote: BIB 207966
Statut: Disponible