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Book SynopsisCharlotte Ashby is an art and design historian based at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of
Modernism in Scandinavia (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017) and co-editor of
Imagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870s-1920s (2019).Mark Crinson is Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. Among his books are
Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003) and
Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism (I.B. Tauris, 2017).
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Foreword,
Adrian Forty (University College London, UK) Introduction,
Mark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part 1: Grey Zones 1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India,
Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA) 2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes,
Meltem Ö. Gürel (Yasar University, Turkey) 3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience,
Louisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA) 4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore,
Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) 5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham’s Freeway Ecology,
Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part 2: Dissolved Distinctions 6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674,
Panagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the
Architectural Magazine (1834-38),
Anne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium,
Fredie Floré (KU Leuven, Belgium) 9. Disaster Relief and ‘Universal Shelters’: Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976,
Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilian Sanchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK) Part 3: Uneasy Difference 10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations,
Alistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK) 11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.’s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment,
Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA) 12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History,
Jane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK) 13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil,
Livia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden) Afterword,
Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, UK) Index
