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ARCH6846-1 / Spring 2019

South East Asia and Post Colonialism

Location & Time

412 AVERY

TU 11 AM -1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points
Requirements

CAP 15

Call Number

28447

This seminar examines the history of modern architecture in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka from the moment of independence to the rise of nationalism and globalization in the early 1990s. Based on a selection of exemplary case studies, it looks at five arenas of architectural production: urban and territorial operations, infrastructure, institution building, housing, and imaginaries of nationhood. Among the key local protagonists to be investigated are Balkrishna Doshi, Achyut Kanvinde, Mahendra Raj, Raj Rewal, Charles, Correa, Laurie Baker, and Brinda Somaya in India; Yasmin Lari in Pakistan; Muzharul Islam in Bangladesh; as well as Valentine Gunasekara and Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka. It pairs the analyses of select projects with seminal readings of major post-colonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as well as architectural theorists such as Arindam Dutta, Kenneth Frampton, and Vikram Prakash. It investigates in how far key concepts such as the stereotype, interpretation, hybridity, translation, palimpsest, the nation, and cosmopolitanism can be made operative in the design of a history of modern architecture in South Asia.