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OverviewExamines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after World War II, architects and planners found extensive opportunities in new international institutions—such as the World Bank, the UN, and the Ford Foundation—and helped shape new models of global intervention that displaced the burden of change onto the inhabitants. Muzaffar argues that architecture in this domain didn’t just symbolically represent power, but formed the material domain through which new modes of power acquired sense. Looking at a series of architectural projects across the world, from housing in Ghana to village planning in Nigeria and urban planning in Venezuela and Pakistan, Muzaffar explores how architects and planners shaped new ideas of time, land, climate, and the decolonizing body, making them appear as sources of untapped value. What resulted, Muzaffar argues, is a widespread belief in spontaneous Third World “development” without capital, which continues to foreclose any global discussion of colonial theft. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ijlal MuzaffarPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781477329481ISBN 10: 147732948 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 29 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Soft Bricks, Hard Mortar of Immanence: Thinking through Other Figurations of Architecture in Development Part I: Risk/Belief Chapter 1. House without a Core: Capturing Intent in Ghana Chapter 2. God’s Gamble: Self-Help Architecture and the Housing of Risk Part II: Borders/Open-Endedness Chapter 3. Boundary Games: Military Rule, International Experts, and the Aesthetics of Incompletion in Pakistan Chapter 4. “Settlers Welcome”: Designing the Infinite Present, from Pakistan to the Philippines Chapter 5 Fuzzy Planning: MIT, Harvard, and the Image of Planning in Venezuela Part III: Materiality/Depth Chapter 6. Landing Architecture: Bodies and Land in Transition in the Gold Coast Chapter 7. Tropics of Shame: Fry, Drew, and the Designing of Depth Chapter 8. Counting Quality: Locating Patterns of Change, from Geddes to Koolhaas Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsAuthor InformationIjlal Muzaffar is a professor of modern architectural history at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the coeditor of Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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