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9780415399081: Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling, and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
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ISBN 10 : 0415399084 ISBN 13 : 9780415399081
Editeur : Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.

Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British Indian 'Raj'.

Illustrated with seventy-five halftone images, it is a fascinating and thoroughly grounded exposition of the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Scriver is a researcher in the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) and Senior Lecturer in Architecture, History and Theory at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the author, with Vikram Bhatt, of After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture, and a forthcoming monograph, The Scaffolding of Empire, on the architecture and planning history of the Public Works Department of British India.

Vikramaditya ("Vikram") Prakash is currently Chair of the Department of Architecture, University of Washington, having been previously Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is author of Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India and (with Francis Ching and Mark Jarzombek) A Global History of Architecture.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415399084
ISBN 13 
9780415399081
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
298
Éditeur
Scriver Peter, Prakash Vikramaditya
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0415399092 ISBN 13 :  9780415399098
Editeur : Routledge, 2007
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