Ijlal Muzaffar

Modernism's Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781477329665
• ISBN-10: 1477329668
• Artikelnr.: 68933310

Autorenporträt

Ijlal Muzaffar is a professor of modern architectural history at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the coeditor of Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Soft Bricks, Hard Mortar of Immanence: Thinking through Other
Figurations of Architecture in Development
2. Part I: Risk/Belief
* Chapter 1. House without a Core: Capturing Intent in Ghana
* Chapter 2. God's Gamble: Self-Help Architecture and the Housing of
Risk
3. Part II: Borders/Open-Endedness
* Chapter 3. Boundary Games: Military Rule, International Experts, and
the Aesthetics of Incompletion in Pakistan
* Chapter 4. "Settlers Welcome": Designing the Infinite Present, from
Pakistan to the Philippines
* Chapter 5 Fuzzy Planning: MIT, Harvard, and the Image of Planning in
Venezuela
4. Part III: Materiality/Depth
* Chapter 6. Landing Architecture: Bodies and Land in Transition in the
Gold Coast
* Chapter 7. Tropics of Shame: Fry, Drew, and the Designing of Depth
* Chapter 8. Counting Quality: Locating Patterns of Change, from Geddes
to Koolhaas
5. Acknowledgments
6. Notes
7. Index