TY - BOOK AU - Hernandez, Felipe TI - Bhabha for architects SN - 0415477468 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2010/// CY - London & New York PB - Routledge KW - N1 - CONTETNS Series Editor's Preface vii Illustration Credits ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Bhabha's theoretical context 9 Postcolonial theory 14 Bhabha and architecture 18 The plan of this book 21 2 Translation 24 Walter Benjamin and the 'task of the translator' 26 Translation in Bhabha's work 30 3 Ambivalence 39 Postcolonial ambivalence 42 The ambivalence of architectural history 50 4 Hybridity 58 Bhabha's hybridity 60 Critiques of hybridity 73 Hybridity as form in architecture 77 Representing non-western architectures 82 5 The Third Space 89 Theorising the Third Space 90 Spatialising the Third Space 93 Third Space and architecture 96 6 The Pedagogical and the Performative 99 Cultural difference and the agency of minorities 100 The nation and some ideas on nationalism 104 Bhabha's critique of the nation 108 Questioning duality in the history of colonial cities 117 The performative temporality of contemporary cities 120 Architecture and the performative 123 7 Conclusion 130 Works Cited 133 Further Reading 135 Index 137 UR - https://epdf.pub/bhabha-for-architects-thinkers-for-architects-5ea80471b0b73.html ER -