Foreword
Lesley Lokko
Preface
Samir Pandya
1. Introduction—After belonging: architecture, nation, difference
Samir Pandya
2. Architecture in National Identities: a critical review
Samir Pandya
3. ‘Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London’s East End, 1942–1949’
Sarah A. Milne
4. ‘A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure’: universities as agents of cosmopolitan urbanism
Clare Melhuish
5. Placing in-between: thinking through architecture in the construction of colonial-modern identities
Peter Scriver
6. Affective disorder: architectural design for complex national identities
Samir Pandya
7. Questioning authenticity
Hilde Heynen
8. The mosque and the nation
Shahed Saleem
9. Architecture and faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Victoria Watson
Biography
Samir Pandya is an Architect and Associate Head of the School of Architecture & Cities at the University of Westminster, London, UK. In addition to examining and lecturing at institutions throughout the UK, he has held visiting academic posts at schools of architecture in India, South Africa, Italy, and Cyprus, and is a Member of the Academic Advisory Board at the African Futures Institute (Ghana). His committee memberships and chairships have included the Society of Black Architects (Executive Committee), RIBA Education Committee (Member) and Architects for Change (Chair), all engaged to address questions of equity and representation in architecture. In addition to being Co-Editor of the interdisciplinary journal National Identities: Critical Inquiry into Nationhood, Politics & Culture (Taylor & Francis), he is an Editorial Board member of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, and Veranda, the peer-reviewed journal of Sushant School of Art & Architecture, Delhi, India.
