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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
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...)
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
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"
example of actual association, merging of modernity and tradition, adapting to local conditions and culture
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?
"political problems defined in cultural terms"
Assimilation vs association
experimentation in a colonial setting
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
Political use of architecture, reducing the authority and power of local political and cultural leaders through architecture
Colony as a laboratory for western ideas and ideals
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
Architecture as a political statement and as a tool for colonization.