The globalisation of modern architecture : the impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 1900 / by Robert Adam.
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Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- A short history of globalisation and architecture from 500 BCE to 1939 CE
- Empires and birth of faith-based styles
- European discovery and the Enlightenment
- Colonisation and the spread of European culture
- The first great globalisation
- Nationalism, internationalism and the birth of modernism
- The New World order 1945 to 1992: global commerce, politics and the triumph of modernism
- Establishing global institutions
- The Cold War and victory of modernism
- The golden age of capitalism and heroic modernism
- The breakdown of the post-war consensus and a crisis of confidence in architecture
- Western recovery and the fragmentation of architecture
- Setting the stage for the global economy
- The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the new global era
- The social and cultural impacts of globalisation
- The supremacy of the north-Atlantic economics
- Architectural practice and the response to global opportunities
- Architects and the transnational capitalist class
- Cities and the global elite
- The new structure of global trade
- A transformed political landscape and the global city
- The universal trading city
- Reflexive modernism
- The symbolism of the global city
- The global suburb
- Deterritorialisation and the non-place
- Consumerism, the globalisation of markets and branding
- Tourism redefined and the branding of cities
- The birth of the iconic building and the Bilbao effect
- Iconic architecture: practice and theory
- Star architects
- Global architects
- The breakdown of the nation state and revived identities
- Cultural rights and the international response
- Identity politics and the complexity of the global condition
- Personal and social identity
- 'Glocalisation' and the new trading conditions
- The local and the global in environmentalism
- Critical regionalism: the modernist response to localism
- Sustainability and locality
- Identity and reflexive modernism
- Contextual urbanism
- Traditional architecture
- The present and the future
- The 2008 bank crash and end of north Atlantic supremacy
- Power moves east
- Changing global priorities
- Urban crisis in the emerging economies
- Iconic architecture reassessed
- Indigenisation and hybridised returns
- The next modernism?