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Intro
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 How to Measure Globalisation?
1.2 Contemporary Architecture and Its Geographies
1.3 Beginning with the End: Our Conclusions for a Multi-layer History of Architecture
References
Part I Gauging Architectural Globalisation
2 Towards a Quantitative Turn: Frontiers of Architectural Historiography
2.1 World History, Globalisation, and Architectural Historiography
2.2 Architectural Historiographies and Globalisation: Still Grasping the Surface?
2.3 Architectural Modes of Production in the Age of Globalisation: Sociology and Ethnography of Practice
2.4 Towards a Quantitative and Cross-Disciplinary Approach: From Serial History to the Digital Humanities
2.5 Gauging 1000+ Architectural Firms: A Representative Sample
2.6 Conclusions
References
3 A Globalising Practice: From European Colonialism to the Global Age of Architecture, 1400-1989
3.1 Across Lands and Seas: Colonial Empires and Royal Patronage During the "Long Sixteenth Century"
3.2 Expanding Empires, Expanding Opportunities: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
3.3 Cold War, Tropical Modernism, and the Globalisation of Modernism in a Decolonising World: 1945-70s
3.4 The Side of the Oil Crisis from the Middle East Boom to the "End of History:" 1970-90s
3.5 Conclusions
References
4 Architecture in Emerging Markets: A "Distant Reading"
4.1 BRICS and Other Emerging Markets: Defining the Scope of This Study
4.2 A Broad, But Still Incomplete, Picture: Globalisation Versus Mondialisation
4.3 The Globalisation of the Architectural Practice: Building in Emerging Markets
4.4 The Aeroplane and the Internet: Towards a 24 h Working day with CAAD
4.5 "Boots on the Ground": Office Branches
4.6 Successful Export and Unaccomplished Ambitions: Europe Versus the USA Versus the Asia-Pacific
4.7 Conclusions
References
Part II Architectural Geographies of Globalisation
5 The Skyscraper: Go East, Go High, Go Hybrid
5.1 A Changing Geography, a Changing Typology: Asian and Hybrid
5.2 At the Top (the Largest Number): China
5.3 At the Top (the Tallest): The Middle East
5.4 Unsatisfied Global Aspirations and Regionalist Reactions: South and South-East Asia
5.5 The Oil and Gas Boost: Russia
5.6 A Different Chronology? Latin America
5.7 Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Experimental Conditions: Tall, Anti, and Hyper
5.8 Entangled Debates: The (Un)ethics of the Skyscraper
5.9 Conclusions
References
6 Art and Culture: Global Icons for the Starchitects
6.1 The Museum Boom: China
6.2 Emerging Cultural Hubs? Museum Franchises and Cultural Clusters in the Persian Gulf
6.3 Opera and Theatres: China, Again
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 How to Measure Globalisation?
1.2 Contemporary Architecture and Its Geographies
1.3 Beginning with the End: Our Conclusions for a Multi-layer History of Architecture
References
Part I Gauging Architectural Globalisation
2 Towards a Quantitative Turn: Frontiers of Architectural Historiography
2.1 World History, Globalisation, and Architectural Historiography
2.2 Architectural Historiographies and Globalisation: Still Grasping the Surface?
2.3 Architectural Modes of Production in the Age of Globalisation: Sociology and Ethnography of Practice
2.4 Towards a Quantitative and Cross-Disciplinary Approach: From Serial History to the Digital Humanities
2.5 Gauging 1000+ Architectural Firms: A Representative Sample
2.6 Conclusions
References
3 A Globalising Practice: From European Colonialism to the Global Age of Architecture, 1400-1989
3.1 Across Lands and Seas: Colonial Empires and Royal Patronage During the "Long Sixteenth Century"
3.2 Expanding Empires, Expanding Opportunities: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
3.3 Cold War, Tropical Modernism, and the Globalisation of Modernism in a Decolonising World: 1945-70s
3.4 The Side of the Oil Crisis from the Middle East Boom to the "End of History:" 1970-90s
3.5 Conclusions
References
4 Architecture in Emerging Markets: A "Distant Reading"
4.1 BRICS and Other Emerging Markets: Defining the Scope of This Study
4.2 A Broad, But Still Incomplete, Picture: Globalisation Versus Mondialisation
4.3 The Globalisation of the Architectural Practice: Building in Emerging Markets
4.4 The Aeroplane and the Internet: Towards a 24 h Working day with CAAD
4.5 "Boots on the Ground": Office Branches
4.6 Successful Export and Unaccomplished Ambitions: Europe Versus the USA Versus the Asia-Pacific
4.7 Conclusions
References
Part II Architectural Geographies of Globalisation
5 The Skyscraper: Go East, Go High, Go Hybrid
5.1 A Changing Geography, a Changing Typology: Asian and Hybrid
5.2 At the Top (the Largest Number): China
5.3 At the Top (the Tallest): The Middle East
5.4 Unsatisfied Global Aspirations and Regionalist Reactions: South and South-East Asia
5.5 The Oil and Gas Boost: Russia
5.6 A Different Chronology? Latin America
5.7 Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Experimental Conditions: Tall, Anti, and Hyper
5.8 Entangled Debates: The (Un)ethics of the Skyscraper
5.9 Conclusions
References
6 Art and Culture: Global Icons for the Starchitects
6.1 The Museum Boom: China
6.2 Emerging Cultural Hubs? Museum Franchises and Cultural Clusters in the Persian Gulf
6.3 Opera and Theatres: China, Again