The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture by Gevork Har... - 9781032191256

The Visibility of Modernization in ArchitectureA Debate\nAuthor(s): Gevork Hartoonian\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032191256, 978-1032191256\nSynopsis\nThis edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.\n\nFocusing on a particular building type, an influential architects work, as well as relevant texts and documents, each chapter addresses the many facets of \""delay\"" which are central to the problematization of capitalisms progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism. This collection underlines the centrality of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. The book is primarily concerned with the historical timeline, the tangential point when a nation enters moder.