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Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South

Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South

Architectural History Collaborative, Aggregate

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ISBN10: 1032045337
ISBN13: 9781032045337
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 2.73
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.80 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of development after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone. It manifested itself in every sphere of expression where economic predicaments might be seen to impinge on cultural factors. Architecture appears in development discourse as a terrain between culture and economics, in that practitioners took on the mantle of modernist expression while also acquiring government contracts and immersing themselves in bureaucratic processes. This book considers how, for a brief period, architects, planners, structural engineers, and various practitioners of the built environment employed themselves in designing all the intimate spheres of life, but from a consolidated space of expertise. Seen in these terms, development was, to cite Arturo Escobar, an immense design project itself, one that requires radical disassembly and rethinking beyond the umbrella terms of global modernism and colonial modernities, which risk erasing the sinews of conflict encountered in globalizing and modernizing architecture.

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