Earth That Modernism Built - Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: The Earth as an Object of Design
  • From Determinism to Determination
  • Earth-Boundedness as (Anti-)Modernism
  • Geopower and Biopower
  • Deployments of Settlement
  • Racializing the Rural
  • A Constellation of Relationships
• Chapter 1: Rooting Life in Land
  • Settlement between Colonialism and Reform
  • Theorizing Cultivation as Colonization
  • Designing Earth-Boundedness
  • Conflicts and Failures of Transplantation
  • Earth-Boundedness in the Wake of Genocide
• Chapter 2: Arts and Technics of Internal Colonialism
  • Nativizing the Farmhouse
  • Reading Landscape, Making Race
  • Biopolitics of the Vernacular
  • Designing Colonial Order
  • Building Logistics and Imperial Regionalism
• Chapter 3: Technifying the Soil, Designing the Human
  • From Soil Science to Social Order
  • Urban Gardening as Domestic Colonization
  • Grounding Biological Functionalism
• Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Planetary Design
  • Empire’s Technological Nature
  • Design and Geopolitics, a Wartime Alliance
  • Geopolitics after Empire?
  • World Order by Design
  • Engineering Continents to Uphold Supremacy
  • Infrastructural Specters
• Epilogue: Spaceship Earth
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index




About the author










Kenny Cupers is a professor of architectural history and urban studies and co-founder of the Critical Urbanisms program at the University of Basel. He is the author of The Social Project: Housing Postwar France and co-editor of Neoliberalism on the Ground: Archutecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present.

Product details

• Authors: Kenny Cupers
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2024
• EAN: 9781477330210
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-3021-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture