Architecture And Nation Building

Author : Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781482831696

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Architecture and Nation Building by Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi Pdf

The book outlines firstly how architects must not ignore the values and rituals of the modern society that is strongly rooted in the traditional and religious beliefs of their race and culture. The modern rituals of the society interpreted within a democratic framework as well as the forces of economy will give many new ideas for spaces and forms to the designers who are concerned about building a nation through the design of structures and buildings. This book provides a more progressive outlook on how architecture can be creatively and meaningfully interpreted to provide the nation with a new and exciting useful architecture and an element that can be taken pride of by all the cultures of the citizenry. The first section deals with the idea of the community and its values as it impinges upon the planning and design of housing. The second section deals with relooking at how a national iconic symbol should be one that is inclusive and not exclusive of a single dominant culture. The third section presents a stirring criticism of cliché Islamic architecture that is exclusive, regressive, and wasteful. The book outlines some new perspective that can be taken in order to initiate a total revamp of Islamic architecture more suited to a civilized and inclusive society. The fourth and final section presents new directions in the architecture of educational institutions that would emphasize the students more than the administration.

Author : Sibel Bozdoğan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295981520

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Modernism and Nation Building by Sibel Bozdoğan Pdf

Architectural historian and philosopher Bozdogan began planning this study while she was researching her book on Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem. Now based in Boston, she situates Turkish architecture during the early decades of the 20th century within the contexts of nationalist impulses and modern architecture in western culture generally. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Joachim Nijs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9462086133

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Japan: Nation Building Nature by Joachim Nijs Pdf

A new history of modern Japanese architecture, from an environmental perspective Joachim Nijs' Japan: Nation Building Natureis the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four typological phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life and insularity. This imaginative and refreshing book offers key insights and references for anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of Japan and its architecture.

Author : Anthony O. Sproul
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0494068221

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Architecture's Role in Nation-building [microform]: the Palestinian National Library by Anthony O. Sproul Pdf

Author : Hyun Kyung Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319663388

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'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building by Hyun Kyung Lee Pdf

This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates how buildings are selectively destroyed, preserved, or reconstructed in order to either establish or challenge the cultural identity of places as new political orders are developed. In addition, she illuminates the Korean traditional concept of feng shui as a core indigenous framework for understanding the relationship between space and power, as it is associated with nation-building processes and heritagization. By providing a detailed study of a case little known outside of East Asia, ‘Difficult Heritage’ in Nation Building will expand the framework of Western-centered heritage research by introducing novel Asian perspectives.

Author : Antoinette J. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 019535186X

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Architects to the Nation by Antoinette J. Lee Pdf

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "restorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.

Author : Rana, Raj
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architectural practice
ISBN : 0494101091

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The Architecture(s) of Nation-building [microform] by Rana, Raj Pdf

Author : Steven Conn,Max Page
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812218527

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Building the Nation by Steven Conn,Max Page Pdf

"Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"

Author : Sibel Bozdogan,Resat Kasaba
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800189

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Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey by Sibel Bozdogan,Resat Kasaba Pdf

In the first two decades after W.W.II, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. Images of unveiled women working next to clean-shaven men, healthy children in school uniforms, and downtown Ankara's modern architecture all proclaimed the country's success. Although Turkey's modernization began in the late Ottoman era, the establishment of the secular nation-state by Kemal Ataturk in 1923 marked the crystallization of an explicit, elite-driven 'project of modernity' that took its inspiration exclusively from the West. The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. As they examine both the Turkish project of modernity and its critics, the contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.

Author : Shireen Jahn Kassim,Norwina Mohd Nawawi,Mansor Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319661315

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Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form by Shireen Jahn Kassim,Norwina Mohd Nawawi,Mansor Ibrahim Pdf

This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment. Ever since the nation’s post-Colonial era, architects and policy makers have grappled with the theoretical and practical outcomes of creating public architecture that effectively responds to traditions, nationhood and modernity. The authors compile and analyse prevailing ideas and strategies, present case studies in architectural language and form, and introduce the reader to tensions arising between a nationalist agenda and local ‘regionalist’ architectural language. These dichotomies represent the very nature of multicultural societies and issues with identity; a challenge that various nations across the globe face in a changing environment. This topical and pertinent volume will appeal to students and scholars of urban planning, architecture and the modern city.

Author : Lawrence Vale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134729289

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Architecture, Power and National Identity by Lawrence Vale Pdf

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.

Author : Dragan Damjanović,Aleksander Łupienko
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800733381

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Forging Architectural Tradition by Dragan Damjanović,Aleksander Łupienko Pdf

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various other buildings, were not only admired for their aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient times, and their role as reminders of important events from the national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

Author : Darren Deane,Sarah Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351915793

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Nationalism and Architecture by Darren Deane,Sarah Butler Pdf

Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the most powerful collective representation of a nation is through its architecture and how that architecture engages the global arena by expressing, defining and sometimes negating a sense of nation in order to participate in the international world. Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides a truly global exploration of the relationship between architecture and nationalism, via the themes of regionalism and representation, various national building projects, ethnic and trans-national expression, national identities and histories of nationalist architecture and the philosophies and sociological studies of nationalism. It argues that nationalism needs to be trans-national as a notion to be critically understood and the geographical scope of the proposed volume reflects the continuing relevance of the topic within current architectural scholarship as an overarching notion. The interdisciplinary essays are coherently grouped together in three thematic sections: Revisiting Nationalism, Interpreting Nationalism and Questioning Nationalism. These chapters, offer vignettes of the protean appearances of nationalism across nations, and offer a basis of developing wider knowledge and critically situated understanding of the question, beyond a singular nation's limited bounds.

Author : Steven Conn,Max Page
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293104

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Building the Nation by Steven Conn,Max Page Pdf

Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.

Author : Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9671139116

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Architecture, Society & Nation Building by Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi Pdf