1st Edition

Bhabha for Architects

By Felipe Hernandez Copyright 2010
160 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of ‘space’ has made his work highly appealing to architects and architectural theorists. This... Read more

Foreword By Homi Bhabha Introduction: Homi Bhabha, Postcolonial Discourse and Architecture  1. Translation  2. Ambivalence  3. Hybridity  4. The Third Space  5. The Pedagogical and the Performative

Biography

Felipe Hernández is an architect and Professor of Architectural Design, History and Theory in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture in Latin America (Birkhäuser 2009).