{"product_id":"the-earth-that-modernism-built-empire-and-the-rise-of-planetary-design-paperback-softback-9781477330210","title":"The Earth That Modernism Built; Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477330210","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Earth That Modernism Built\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmpire and the Rise of Planetary Design\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKenny Cupers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330210, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn this pathbreaking book, Kenny Cupers forcefully shows how our understanding of architectural modernism in Germany benefits from placing it in a larger postcolonial framework. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth That Modernism Built\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully connects metropolitan Germany, Namibia, and the Prussian borderlands, thus revealing how developments in architecture and urban planning were bound up with concepts of \u003ci\u003eLebensraum\u003c\/i\u003e and imperial notions of space. Eye-opening.\u003c\/div\u003e - Sebastian Conrad, Free University of Berlin, author of What Is Global History? \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Earth That Modernism Built\u003c\/i\u003e revisits one of the most fundamental presuppositions of modernism, that reshaping the built environment will transform humanity and engineer a new world. Ambitious in scope, while providing nuanced accounts of significant, situated projects, both familiar and relatively unknown, this kaleidoscopic study reveals how environmental and geopolitical thinking have been written into modern architecture and planning by way of racialized discourses regarding land, soil, and settlement. Through this astute shift in perspective on the recent outpouring of studies tracing the colonial histories of modernity, Cupers offers instead an incisive and previously overlooked history of architectural modernism’s coloniality.\u003c\/div\u003e - Sheila Crane, University of Virginia, author of Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth That Modernism Built\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and Poland to situate Wilhelmine and Weimar design projects in an expansive discourse about the relationship between soil, settlement, and race. This reframing reveals connections between colonial officials planning agricultural hinterlands, garden designers proselytizing geopolitical theory, soil researchers turning to folklore, and Bauhaus architects designing modern communities according to functionalist principles. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth That Modernism Built\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the conviction that we can \u003ci\u003edesign\u003c\/i\u003e our way out of environmental crisis is bound to exploitative and divisive ways of inhabiting the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: The Earth as an Object of Design \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Determinism to Determination \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Earth-Boundedness as (Anti-)Modernism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Geopower and Biopower \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Deployments of Settlement \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Racializing the Rural \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Constellation of Relationships \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1: Rooting Life in Land \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Settlement between Colonialism and Reform \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Theorizing Cultivation as Colonization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Designing Earth-Boundedness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conflicts and Failures of Transplantation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Earth-Boundedness in the Wake of Genocide \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2: Arts and Technics of Internal Colonialism \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nativizing the Farmhouse \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Reading Landscape, Making Race \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Biopolitics of the Vernacular \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Designing Colonial Order \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Building Logistics and Imperial Regionalism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3: Technifying the Soil, Designing the Human \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Soil Science to Social Order \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Urban Gardening as Domestic Colonization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Grounding Biological Functionalism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Planetary Design \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Empire’\u003cbr\u003es Technological Nature \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Design and Geopolitics, a Wartime Alliance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Geopolitics after Empire? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e World Order by Design \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Engineering Continents to Uphold Supremacy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Infrastructural Specters \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: Spaceship Earth \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670774378776,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-earth-that-modernism-built-empire-and-the-rise-of-planetary-design-paperback-softback-9781477330210","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}