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Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital (Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices) by Ijlal Muzaffar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital (Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices) about?
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat , Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after World War II, architects and planners found extensive opportunities in new international institutions—such as the World Bank, the UN, and the Ford Foundation—and helped shape new models of global intervention that displaced the burden of change onto the inhabitants. Muzaffar argues that architecture in this domain didn’t just symbolically represent power, but formed the material domain through which new modes of power acquired sense. Looking at a series of architectural projects across the world, from housing in Ghana to village planning in Nigeria and urban planning in Venezuela and Pakistan, Muzaffar explores how architects and planners shaped new ideas of time, land, climate, and the decolonizing body, making them appear as sources of untapped value. What resulted, Muzaffar argues, is a widesprea
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ijlal Muzaffar
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781477329481
- Category
- nonfiction