Provincializing colonial architecture
Colonial architecture has long represented the primary lens through which modern buildings erected in the global south were considered and analyzed. Fueled by post-colonial theory, the focus led to discussions of architecture in relationship to white power and social engineering. Since Anthony King...
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ABE Journal
2017
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| Shrnutí: | Colonial architecture has long represented the primary lens through which modern buildings erected in the global south were considered and analyzed. Fueled by post-colonial theory, the focus led to discussions of architecture in relationship to white power and social engineering. Since Anthony King’s influential The Bungalow (1984), looking at colonial achievements has indeed helped to highlight the colonial roots of European architectural modernity. Both perspectives—the Foucauldian and the... |
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