Third World Modernism

Duanfang Lu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney and author of Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949–2005.

"Third World Modernism is a book which makes tremendous strides toward imagining a multivalent history of architecture sensitive to the particularities of place and the rich diversity of actors that produce it. The several examples of fine-grained historical research not only fill a void in the literature on the built environment, but systematically disassemble the certainties and centralities undergirding disciplinary readings of modernism." - Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review

• 1. Introduction: Architecture, Development, and Identity Part 1: The Will of the Age 2. The Other Way Around: The Modernist Movement in Brazil 3. Contesting Modernism in Morocco 4. Agrupacion Espacio and the CIAM Peru Group: Architecture and the City in the Peruvian Modern Project Part 2: Building the Nation 5. Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli Architect Arieh Sharon’s Obademi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 6. Modernity and Revolution: The Architecture of Ceylon’s 20th Century Exhibitions 7. This Is Not an American House: Good Sense Modernism in 1950s Turkey Part 3: Entangled Modernities 8. Modernity Transfers: The MoMA and Postcolonial India 9. Building a (Post)Colonial Technoscientific Network: Tropical Architecture, Building Science and the Politics of Decolonization 10. Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of British Architectural Culture 11. Epilogue: Third World Modernism, or Just Modernism: Towards a Cosmopolitan Reading of Modernism