Contents
List of Illustrations IX
Introduction: Modernism and Beyond:The Plurality of Contemporary
Architectures
Elie G. Haddad and David Rifkind 1
PART I MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS AFTER MODERNISM
1 Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959
Peter L Laurence 9
2 Post-Modernism: Critique and Reaction
David Rifkind 31
3 High-Tech: Modernism Redux
Sarah Deyong 51
4 Deconstruction: The Project of Radical Self-Criticism
Elie G. Haddad 69
5 Greening Architecture:The Impact of Sustainability
Phillip Tabb 91
6 Postcolonial Theories in Architecture
Esra Akcan 115
PART II ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
7 Architecture in North America since 1960
Brendan Moron 139
8 Architectural Developments in Latin America: 1960-2010
Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima 163
9 The Place of Commonplace: The Ordinary as Alternative
Architectural Lens in Western Europe
Tom Avermaete 189
10 Dutch Modern Architecture: From an Architecture of Consensus to
the Culture of Congestion
Frances Hsu 207
11 Metaphorical Peripheries: Architecture in Spain and Portugal
Xavier Costa 225
12 Architecture in Switzerland: A Natural History
Laurent Stalder 239
13 Architecture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since
1960
Kimberly Elman Zarecor 255
14 Finland: Architecture and Cultural Identity
Taisto H. Makela 275
15 Architecture in Africa: Situated Modern and the Production of
Locality lain Low 291

16 Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia
(1960-2010)
EsraAkcan 311
17 Old Sites, New Frontiers: Modern and Contemporary Architecture in
Iran Pamela Karimi 339
18 Beyond Tropical Regionalism: The Architecture of Southeast Asia
Kelly Shannon 359
19 Internationalism and Architecture in India after Nehru
Amit Srivastava and Peter Scriver 379
20 Architecture in China in the Reform Era: 1978-2010
Tao Zhu 401
21 Architecture in Post-World War II Japan
Ken Tadashi Oshima 419
22 Edge of Centre: Architecture in Australia and New Zealand after 1965 Philip Goad 437
Index 461