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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154992003321

Titolo

Nationalism and architecture / / edited by Raymond Quek and Darren Deane, with Sarah Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91579-7

1-138-10837-5

1-315-24835-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages)

Collana

Studies in Architecture

Altri autori (Persone)

ButlerSarah <1977->

DeaneDarren

QuekRaymond

Disciplina

720.1/03

Soggetti

Nationalism and architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The sources of architectural nationalism / Mitchell Schwarzer -- 2. Religion and nation : the architecture and symbolism of Irish identity in the post-war British Catholic Church / Robert Proctor -- 3. Exporting architectural national expertise : Arieh Sharon's Ife University campus in West-Nigeria (1962-1976) / Ayala Levin -- 4. Lewis Mumford and the quest for a Jewish architecture / Anat Falbel -- 5. Power, nationalism and national representation in modern architecture and exhibition design at Expo 58 / Rika Devos -- 6. Conceptualizing national architectures : architectural histories and national ideologies among the South Slavs / Tanja D. Conley -- 7. William A. Scott (1871-1921) and Irish nationalism / James McQuillan -- 8. The building without a shadow : national identity and the international style / Mark Crinson -- 9. The Pohjola building : reconciling contradictions in Finnish architecture around 1900 / Charlotte Ashby -- 10. Louis Kahn's 'fairy tales' of American institutions / Darren R. Deane -- 11. Post-colonial nation-building and symbolic structures in South Africa / Estelle Alma  Maré -- 12. Looking-up : nationalism and internationalism in ceilings, 1850-2000 / Manfredo di Robilant -- 13.Jørn Utzon’s  radical internationalism : Nordic grounding and the emulation of China /



Chen-Yu, Chiu -- 14. Constructing national identity through the international style : Alvar Aalto and Finland / Eva Eylers -- 15. From nationalist to critical regionalist architecture / Alexander Tzonis -- 16. A discipline without a country : Geert Bekaert and universal architecture (in Belgium) / Christophe Van Gerrewey -- 17. How national is a national canon? Questions of heritage construction in Swedish architecture / Victor Edman -- 18. Architecting the cosmos : EXPO 2010 / Sarah Butler -- 19. Architectural koináe and trans-national Spanish architecture / M. Concepcion Diez-Pastor -- 20. Architecture as a medium of trans-national (post)memory / Zuzanna Dziuban -- 21. The cloak of a nation : Republic of China/Taiwan/Chinese Taipei, questions for the pursuit of nationalism in architecture / Raymond Quek.