1st Edition
The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture A Debate
List of Contributors
Introduction
Gevork Hartoonian
Part I: Historico-theoretical Paths
1 Empire: Architecture and Totality
Gevork Hartoonian
2 The Architecture of Power, or the Power of Architects
Jean-Louis Cohen
3 Time’s Envelope: City/Capital/Chronotope
Harry Harootunian
4 Challenging Eurocentrism in Architectural Historiographies
Marianna Charitonidou
Part II: Historico-geographic Practices
5 Second Time as Farce: Modern Architecture in Khrushchev’s USSR
Ross Wolfe
6 Different Priorities: Yugoslavian and Romanian Architects In and Out
Mirjana Lozanovska and Carmen Popescu
7 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade: Aesthetics and Cultural Technology
Nikolina Bobic
8 We Need to Talk about Class in Architecture
Harry Margalit
9 Disjunctions in New Zealand Architecture
Paul Walker
10 Assembling Chinese Modernism
Duanfang Lu
11 Korean Architecture, c. 2020: Group 4.3 and Four Important Trends
Hyu-Tae Jung and Junghyun Park
12 Shahyad Tower: Two Tendencies in One Ideological Symbol
Motehareh Danaeifar
13 Oil, Utopia, and the Architecture of the Off-Modern: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Planning in 1930s Iran
Rahmatollah Amirjani
Index
Biography
Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architecture’s Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017.
