LEADER 02406nam 2200421 450 001 9910821248703321 005 20230121184733.0 010 $a955-658-082-4 035 $a(CKB)4900000000561177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6898600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6898600 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000561177 100 $a20230121d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImagining modernity $ethe architecture of Valentine Gunasekara /$fAnoma Pieris and Social Scientists Association of Sri Lanka 210 1$aSri Lanka :$cTambapanni Academic Publishers,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (361 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis book is a detailed study of the architecture of Valentine Gunasekara (1931-2017). It provides an innovative lens to understand the formation of a Ceylonese middle-class, which was inspired by the post-independence desire for modernity. Their experiments, values and dynamic social history are the framework for this research.Although neglected by his peers and marginalized by the prevalent discourse on vernacular regionalism, Gunasekara's work poses important questions regarding the utopian ideals of the modernist project and its successes and its failures in Asia. More significantly, his work reveals the European and American influences that shaped the first generation of Ceylonese architects and their efforts at adapting new materials and technologies to a very different climate and culture.This book documents a wide range of Gunasekara's projects including residential, religious and commercial buildings arguing that they represented a nascent cosmopolitanism from below that proved to be quite antithetical to regionalist trends in architecture.This e-book is a re-publication of an earlier edition published by Stamford Lake in 2007. 606 $aArchitecture$zSri Lanka 606 $aHistory 615 0$aArchitecture 615 0$aHistory. 676 $a720.95491 700 $aPieris$b Anoma$01106773 712 02$aSocial Scientists Association of Sri Lanka, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821248703321 996 $aImagining modernity$94125742 997 $aUNINA