Nationalism and Architecture (Hardcover)

Contents: Nationalism and architecture: an introduction, Raymond Quek; The sources of architectural nationalism, Mitchell Schwarzer; Religion and nation: the architecture and symbolism of Irish identity in the post-war British Catholic Church, Robert Proctor; Exporting architectural national expertise: Arieh Sharon's Ife University campus in West-Nigeria (1962-1976), Ayala Levin; Lewis Mumford and the quest for Jewish architecture, Anat Falbel; Power, nationalism and national representation in modern architecture and exhibition design at Expo 58, Rika Devos; Conceptualizing national architectures: architectural histories and national ideologies among the South Slavs, Tanja D. Conley; William A. Scott (1871-1921) and Irish nationalism, James McQuillan; The building without a shadow: national identity and the international style, Mark Crinson; The Pohjola building: reconciling contradictions in Finnish architecture around 1900, Charlotte Ashby; Louis Kahn's 'fairy tales' of American institutions, Darren R. Deane; Post-colonial nation-building and symbolic structures in South Africa, Estelle Alma Mare; Looking-up: nationalism and internationalism in ceilings, 1850-2000, Manfredo di Robilant; JA¸rn Utzon's radical internationalism: Nordic grounding and the emulation of China, Chen-Yu, Chiu; Constructing national identity through the international style: Alvar Aalto and Finland, Eva Eylers; From nationalist to critical regionalist architecture, Alexander Tzonis; A discipline without a country: Geert Bekaert and universal architecture (in Belgium), Christophe Van Gerrewey; How national is a national canon? Questions of heritage construction in Swedish architecture, Victor Edman; Architecting the cosmos: EXPO 2010, Sarah Butler; Architectural koine and trans-national Spanish architecture, M. Concepcion Diez-Pastor; Architecture as a medium of trans-national (post)memory, Zuzanna Dziuban; The cloak of a nation: Republic of China/Taiwan/Chinese Taipei, questions for the pu