This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). With unprecedented archival access, it reproduces a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781915722362)
Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colonial processes. Reclaiming Colonial Architecture unpacks the built inheritances of colonialism...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477329818)
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism. An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330210)
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influe...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1992, this title examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, an...Lasīt vairāk
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the worlds most dispersed and culturally div...Lasīt vairāk
Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africas cultural...Lasīt vairāk
An Introduction to the History of Southeast Asian Architecture chronicles the architectural heritage of 11 Southeast Asian countries, delving into the major influences and historical development of vernacular architecture and buildings in the region...Lasīt vairāk
The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africas cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names. This book discusses the varying responses to colonial heritage in West African cities, with a parti...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Sep-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198881247)
The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Aug-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526172013)
Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe. They reveal the projection of power and authority in colonised landscapes, as well the economic ambi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Alabama Press, ISBN-13: 9780817321628)
How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ide...Lasīt vairāk
Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africas cultural...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Mercer University Press, ISBN-13: 9780881468229)
Upcountry planters used their financial successes from growing cotton to build Greek Revival mansions to display their status. The muted voices of the slaves who enabled the planters to live in these homes are articulated here, as well as the explor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Sep-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031365)
Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with l...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Sep-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228011422)
This book considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina. A comprehensive study of structures that...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Dec-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824892531)
The Treaty of Paris in 1898 initiated Americas administration of the Philippines. By 1905, Manila had been replanned and the city of Baguio built as expressions of colonial sovereignty and as symbols of a society disassociating itself from its hi...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout todays postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britains once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of th...Lasīt vairāk
In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of realizing their ideological ambitions. When it came to influence and impact, the Sufi shrines ha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Mar-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526145963)
Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial w...Lasīt vairāk
