Orientalist modes of modernism in architecture : Colonial/Postcolonial/Soviet
This article aims to propose a comparative analysis of modernism in architecture, which appeared at the end of the 19th and especially during the 20th century in colonial Maghreb, postcolonial India and Soviet Central Asia. Building on the notion of double bind, we attempt to explore the contradicto...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Études de lettres
2014
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | This article aims to propose a comparative analysis of modernism in architecture, which appeared at the end of the 19th and especially during the 20th century in colonial Maghreb, postcolonial India and Soviet Central Asia. Building on the notion of double bind, we attempt to explore the contradictory role that modernism played in the modernisation of the way of life in the “ Oriental peripheries ” of old colonial empires to better understand the peculiarity of the Soviet experience. We find in it some phenomena close to colonial and postcolonial modernist practices, as well as other potentialities inherent in the Communist utopia. |
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