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Provincializing colonial architecture

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Colonial architecture has long represented the primary lens through which modern buildings erected in the global south were considered and analyzed. Fueled by post-colonial theory, the focus led to discussions of architecture in relationship to white power and social engineering. Since Anthony King’s influential The Bungalow (1984), looking at colonial achievements has indeed helped to highlight the colonial roots of European architectural modernity. Both perspectives—the Foucauldian and the...

Source: ABE Journal

DOI: 10.4000/abe.3508

Author: Mercedes Volait

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INVISU l'Information visuelle et textuelle en histoire de l'art, nouveaux terrains, corpus, outils

Language: English

Topic: Architecture, Modernity, and Design

Subfield: Architecture

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2761362436

FWCI: 2.876

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Cited by: 7

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