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Modern architecture and the end of empire / Mark Crinson.
Fine Arts Library NA968.5.M64 C75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crinson, Mark.
- Series:
- British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Great Britain.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Architecture, British colonial--20th century.
- Architecture, British colonial.
- Nationalism and architecture--Great Britain.
- Nationalism and architecture.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 228 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Imperial panorama: panorama of architecture 1
- Empire as image 3
- Imperial and post-imperial paragons 11
- The watershed 14
- Utopian and dystopian modernism 16
- Late modernism and empire 19
- 2 The double end: training architects for the empire 26
- Baghdad and Liverpool 29
- Liverpool 33
- Egypt and Liverpool 37
- The double end 40
- Professionalization 43
- India 46
- 3 Oil and architecture 52
- The early development of Abadan 53
- Company town 56
- Projecting the company in London 58
- Designing Abadan 62
- Garden suburb 66
- 4 The national pavilion: 'A Building Which Needs No Name' 72
- Wembley, 1924-5 73
- Paris, 1925 80
- Antwerp, 1930, and Johannesburg, 1936 82
- Paris, 1937 86
- Glasgow, 1938 92
- 5 The commonwealth of architecture 100
- The Imperial Institute 101
- The imperial subject 103
- Decolonization and the metropolis 109
- The Commonwealth Institute 118
- The Commonwealth subject 123
- 6 Dialects of internationalism: architecture in Ghana, 1945-66 127
- Training architects in Ghana 129
- Tropical architecture 132
- Tropical architecture in Ghana 137
- New museum = new nation 149
- After independence 154
- 7 The view from Penang Hill: modernism and nationalism in Malaysia 157
- The 'Malayan' 161
- Modernizing nationalism 163
- The National Museum 167
- Modernism as post-colonialism 171
- The view from Penang Hill 175
- Conclusion: Discrepant cosmopolitanism 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754635104
- OCLC:
- 50898984
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