Ijlal Muzaffar

Modernism's Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477329481
• ISBN-10: 147732948X
• Artikelnr.: 68943702

Autorenporträt

Ijlal Muzaffar

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