Colonial Modernities

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.

'From vernacular to monumental architecture, numerous examples of legacies of colonial practices are found throughout South Asia and this book takes the first steps toward introducing their ideological underpinnings, theorizing and narrating them into a particular intellectual space.' – Cities

• Part 1: Frames of Discourse 1. Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia 2. Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts 3. The Stone Books of Orientalism Part 2: Institutional Frameworks 4. Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India 5. 'Strangers within the Gate': Artisanry as Supplement of Labour in the Crafting of Colonial India 6. Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details 7. Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum Part 3: Domestic Frames of Practice 8. A Tomb of One’s Own: The Governor’s House, Lahore 9. The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal 10. The Trouser Under the Cloth: Personal Space in De-Colonization, Ceylon 1815-1948 11. Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi