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SUMMARY: Stunning Developmentalisms - understanding Modernism and Statism 
 in East Asian architecture by Owen Hatherley - Owen Hatherley
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CONTACT:Charles Walton
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, based on a book the speaker has been working on fo
 r the last two years\, is part of an attempt to understand the ways in whi
 ch East Asian developmental states\, especially\, in recent years\, China\
 , complicate or destroy conventional stories about modernism\, development
 \, capitalism and socialism\, via looking at their architecture of the las
 t few decades. A few particular typologies will be singled out - railways 
 and railway stations\, public toilets\, public housing\, megastructures an
 d new towns - and it will be argued that in several ways now commonly disc
 redited or disavowed modernist ideas have become a norm\, and have thrived
  at moments in which they have been most fervently rejected in the global 
 north'.\n\nOwen Hatherley is a British writer and critic whose politically
 -engaged approach to architecture has made him one of the most distinctive
  voices in contemporary urbanism. Since his 2009 debut 'Militant Modernism
 '\, which championed modernist architecture's radical potential\, he has e
 xplored Britain's post-crash urban landscape\, the legacy of communist arc
 hitecture across Eastern Europe\, and the spatial politics of contemporary
  cities in books including 'Landscapes of Communism'\, 'The Ministry of No
 stalgia'\, and 'Modern Buildings in Britain'. Writing regularly for 'The G
 uardian'\, 'London Review of Books'\, and 'Jacobin'\, Hatherley combines r
 igorous historical analysis with sharp critique\, refusing nostalgia whils
 t excavating utopian possibilities from modernism's fragments and insistin
 g that how we build our cities remains fundamentally a question of power a
 nd radical possibility.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 1\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope Terrace
 \, Cambridge
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