The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate

This edited collection examines the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world, highlighting the centrality of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. It explores the historiographic and architectonic unfolding of modernization beyond the western hemisphere, with each chapter addressing the many facets of delay that are central to the problematization of capitalisms progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 26 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited collection delves into the visibility of modernization in architecture across different capitalist regions worldwide, offering a comprehensive historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. Focusing on a specific building type, the influential work of an esteemed architect, as well as relevant texts and documents, each chapter explores the multifaceted aspects of delay central to the problematization of capitalism's progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism. The collection underscores the significance of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. Primarily centered on the historical timeline, the pivotal moment when a nation enters modernization processes, the book examines modernism in diverse regions such as East Asia, the Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Iran. Through these case-studies, readers will gain valuable insights into the historiographic and architectonic unfolding of modernization beyond the Western Hemisphere. This exploration will be of interest to students of architecture and researchers engaged in the study of the intersections of temporalities and the critical importance of these factors in shaping the built environments of various countries.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032191232