Writing a Postcolonial History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism in Germany and Beyond (31.10.2019)
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In this lecture Professor Itohan Osayimwese (Brown University) considers the effects of colonialism on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s to the 1930s, showing how colonialism facilitated a new openness to experimentation fueled by the practice of exhibiting and archiving non-Western objects. By conceptualizing these archives as sites that collected, organized, and policed knowledge, yet, by their very nature, remain open to historiographical reconstitution, Professor Osayimwese articulates a new, more global history that centers colonialism’s contribution to German modernism.
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Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
