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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.
Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from
1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame
as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design
values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal
of government-funded institutional commissions. Yet his body of
work is a remarkable achievement that deserves to be better known.
Following a path from Australia to the United States and Canada and
back again, John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his
most important buildings and reveals how the internationalization
of architecture during this period was an unexpectedly dispersed
geographical phenomenon, following more complex flows and localized
progressions than earlier modernist ideas that travelled from
center to periphery, metropole to outpost. Andrews negotiated the
advent of postmodernism not by ignoring it, but by cultivating
approaches that this new era foregrounded—identity, history,
place—within the formal vocabularies of modernism. As Andrews
assumed wider public roles and took appointments that allowed him
to shape architectural education, he influenced design culture
beyond his own personal portfolio. This book presents his legacy
traversing local and international scenes and exemplifying
late-modern developments of architecture while offering both
generational continuities and discontinuities with what came after.
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense features essays from Paul
Walker, Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter Scriver and Antony Moulis, Philip
Goad, and Paolo Scrivano, along with nearly 100 new photographs
from visual artist Noritaka Minami of existing buildings designed
by Andrews in North America and Australia.
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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