This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity. It attempts to extricate the oppressive ideology of national identity entrenched within the very idea of architecture. The chapters were first published in the journal National Identities.
This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity. It attempts to extricate the oppressive ideology of national identity entrenched within the very idea of architecture. The chapters were first published in the journal National Identities.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Samir Pandya is an Architect and Associate Head of the School of Architecture & Cities at the University of Westminster, London, UK. In addition to examining and lecturing at institutions throughout the UK, he has held visiting academic posts at schools of architecture in India, South Africa, Italy, and Cyprus, and is a Member of the Academic Advisory Board at the African Futures Institute (Ghana). His committee memberships and chairships have included the Society of Black Architects (Executive Committee), RIBA Education Committee (Member) and Architects for Change (Chair), all engaged to address questions of equity and representation in architecture. In addition to being Co-Editor of the interdisciplinary journal National Identities: Critical Inquiry into Nationhood, Politics & Culture (Taylor & Francis), he is an Editorial Board member of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, and Veranda, the peer-reviewed journal of Sushant School of Art & Architecture, Delhi, India.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction-After belonging: architecture, nation, difference 2. Architecture in National Identities: a critical review 3. 'Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942-1949' 4. 'A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure': universities as agents of cosmopolitan urbanism 5. Placing in-between: thinking through architecture in the construction of colonial-modern identities 6. Affective disorder: architectural design for complex national identities 7. Questioning authenticity 8. The mosque and the nation 9. Architecture and faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1. Introduction-After belonging: architecture, nation, difference 2. Architecture in National Identities: a critical review 3. 'Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942-1949' 4. 'A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure': universities as agents of cosmopolitan urbanism 5. Placing in-between: thinking through architecture in the construction of colonial-modern identities 6. Affective disorder: architectural design for complex national identities 7. Questioning authenticity 8. The mosque and the nation 9. Architecture and faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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