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Charlotte 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).

Acknowledgments

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