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the inclusion of traditional features in the colonial architecture was about putting on a show. "supposed cultural tolerance" sums it up well, it was "artificial expressions of mutual engagement and benefits" the indigenous styles for official buildings was meant to show a shift in power that wasn't actually happening the architecture was used to placate locals using architecture to display political power, and also to gain it substitution of "visual decentralization" for actual political change

#arh273 #supposed cultural tolerance #dual urban intentions #political power of architecture #visual decentralization #architecture as a political tool

A good summary of what I was trying to point out / note with the last post. The big thing is the "dual urban agenda." (I want to add the # to other posts but not sure how...)

#arh273 #dual urban agenda

synthesis of modernity and tradition -> can it really be done without "freezing" local progress local tradition and culture as the "quaint" "kitchy" and functioning as a tourist attraction difference between synthesis and isolation

#arh273 #synthesis of modernity and tradition #harmony of modernity and tradition #preserving traditional ideals #consequences of preservation #isolation

were they actually paying homage to the culture they isolated or was it just about image? "pretend homage" so to speak "elaborate interplay of spatial and architectural distinctions" military reasons also -> "political unrest"

#arh273 #segregation of indigenous and western #assimilation vs association #cultural image vs actuality #spatial and architectural distictions

example of actual association, merging of modernity and tradition, adapting to local conditions and culture

#arh273 #synthesis of modernity and tradition #association #architectural merging of ideals #individuality based on locale

dual city - oppressive and racial segregation only allowed to live in european districts if they adopted western culture separating tradition from modernity, lack of synthesis "improve" their surroundings - do they need improving? is developing them actually an improvement?

#arh273 #colonial oppression #dual city #segregation of modernity and tradition #assimilation vs association #imposition of western ideals

"political problems defined in cultural terms"

#arh273 #synthesis of modernity and tradition #political power of architecture #architecture as a political tool #association #importance of space vs place #preserving cultural traditions #colonial cities as laboratories

Assimilation vs association

#arh273 #colonial cities as laboratories #synthesis of modernity and tradition #assimilation #association

experimentation in a colonial setting

#arh273 #colonial cities as laboratories #architecture as a political tool #urbanism #experimentation

culture (in the form of architecture) as a political tool. also the two contrasting versions of modernism forming at the same time, culture vs and related to politics

#arh273 #contrasting versions of modernism #synthesis of modernity and tradition #culture as a political tool #colonial cities as laboratories

Political use of architecture, reducing the authority and power of local political and cultural leaders through architecture

#arh273 #synthesis of modernity and tradition #architecture as political tool

Colony as a laboratory for western ideas and ideals

#arh273 #experimentation

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not-baroque

Gwendolyn Wright, “Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy.”

Policy makers and urban planners used a combination tourist kitsch and modernism as a means to expand colonial economies and increase the popularity of colonialism.

Just like that great quote from the introduction, "a laboratory of western life and a conservatory of oriental life" preserving some details and aspects of the local culture in order to maintain a semblance of local traditions being respected while also experimenting with modernist and industrial ideas in other areas

#arh273 #balance between tradition and modern innovation #preserving cultural traditions #laboratory of western life #conservatory of local traditional life

Architecture as a political statement and as a tool for colonization.

#arh273 #architecture as political tool #colonizing through architecture

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