Modern Architecture and the End of Empire

Mark Crinson is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (Routledge, 1996) and co-author (with Jules Lubbock) of Architecture - Art or Profession? Three Hundred Years of Architectural Training in Britain (Manchester University Press, 1994).

Prize: winner of the 2006 Spiro Kostof Award awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians 'Crinson's valuable reappraisal of modern architecture reminds us that modernity and modernism are haunted by ideas of empire. His scholarship on the lingering remains of empire critically adjusts the way we think about the international style, British architecture and architectures of decolonization.' Jane M. Jacobs, University of Edinburgh 'Unique in its international perspective, Modern Architecture and the End of Empire analyzes the architecture of Modernism in unconventional sites in the waning years of British imperialism.' Nezar AlSayyad, University of California at Berkeley '... a scholarly exploration of the role of modern architecture and architectural culture in relation to imperial decline, the emergence of independent nation-states and neo-colonialism.' Kelly Shanon, Archis '... this innovative and challenging book... an interesting, provocative and well-researched book.' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

• Contents: Preface; Imperial panorama: panorama of architecture; The double end: training architects for the empire; Oil and architecture; The national pavilion: 'A building which needs no name'; The commonwealth of architecture; Dialects of internationalism: architecture in Ghana, 1945-66; The view from Penang Hill: modernism and nationalism in Malaysia; Conclusion: Discrepant cosmopolitanism; Bibliography; Index.