Antipodean Modernity List by author Theme Description It is well known that modernism in architecture reached the antipodes somewhat late having been disseminated from a metropolitan culture in Europe and the United States. What is the meaning of this delay? Is the history of modernism in the Antipodes structurally different to the slow acceptance of modernism in the cultural hinterlands of Europe or the States? Was national identity necessarily in a position of opposition to the international style? And beyond the specifics of national and colonial cultures, is there some significance of the back-to-frontness of 'the antipodean' in relation to architectural modernism? Papers in this session open a number of questions around examples and issues from Australia, New Zealand and Congo. Eugenie Keefer Bell Thom Blake Doug Evans Michelle Hamer Gevork Hartoonian Rachel Hurst Johan Lagae Elizabeth Musgrave Julie Willis & Philip
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