History/Theory - Bernd Nicolai - Architectural History After Globalization

Architectural History After Globalization

Bernd Nicolai

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OMA, Dubai Renaissance, 2006.

History/Theory
November 2017










Notes
1

Donald McNeill, The global architect: firms, fame and urban form (New York: Routledge, 2009).

2

Keller Easterling Enduring Innocence. Global architecture and its political masquerades (Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2005), 2.

3

Mike Davis, “Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai”, Evil Paradises Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism, ed. Mike Davis & Daniel Bertrand Monk (New York: The New Press, 2007), 48–68, 53.

4

Ibid., 51.

5

See Archaeology of entanglement, eds. Lindsay Der, Francesca Fernandini (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2016); Michael Dietler, Archaeologies of colonialism: consumption, entanglement, and violence in ancient Mediterranean France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).

6

World Architecture (1900-2000), A Critical Mosaic, 10 vol., ed. Kenneth Frampton (Vienna: Springer, 1999-2000). See also Architecture and Polyphony. Building in the Islamic World Today, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 9th Award Cycle, (London, 2004).

7

Alexander Tzonis and Lian Lefaivre, “The Grid and the Pathway,” Architecture in Greece, (N5 1981), reprint in: Atelier 66. The Architecture of Dimitris and Suzana Antonakakis (New York: Rizzoli, 1985); Kenneth Frampton, “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance,” in "Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture," ed. Hal Foster (Seattle: Bay Press, 1983). See also Ole W Fischer, “Slow Architecture – The Myth of Local Resistance to Global Architecture. A Critique” ASCA Fall 2011 Conference Proceedings, 141-146.

8

Alexander Tzonis and Lian Lefaivre quoted in Keith L Eggener, “Placing Resistance. A Critique of Critical Regionalism,” in Architectural Regionalism: collected writings on place, identity, modernity, and tradition, ed. Vincent B. Canizaro (New York: Princeton University Press, 2008), 396.

9

“Advocates of regionalism champion cultural diversity and particularities of the local, but only with a constraining dichotomy found by the ideology modernism in post-colonial contexts, issues of tradition and identity are regularly a source of conflict.” Carl O’Coill and Kathleen Walt, “Politics of Culture and the Problem of Tradition,” in Architecture and Identity, eds. Peter Herrle and Erik Wergerhoff (Münster: LIT, 2008), 485.

10

Anthony D. King, “Architecture, Globalization and Identity,” in ibid., 221–232.

11

Peter Herrle, “Architecture and Identity. Stepenwolf and the Carriers of Change,” in ibid., 18.

12

Implicate & explicate: Aga Khan Award for architecture, ed. Mohsen Mostafavi, (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2011); Architecture is Life, Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2013).

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