Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017.

List of Contributors

Introduction

Gevork Hartoonian

Part I: Historico-theoretical Paths

1 Empire: Architecture and Totality

Gevork Hartoonian

2 The Architecture of Power, or the Power of Architects

Jean-Louis Cohen

3 Time's Envelope: City/Capital/Chronotope

Harry Harootunian

4 Challenging Eurocentrism in Architectural Historiographies

Marianna Charitonidou

Part II: Historico-geographic Practices

5 Second Time as Farce: Modern Architecture in Khrushchev's USSR

Ross Wolfe

6 Different Priorities: Yugoslavian and Romanian Architects In and Out

Mirjana Lozanovska and Carmen Popescu

7 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade: Aesthetics and Cultural Technology

Nikolina Bobic

8 We Need to Talk about Class in Architecture

Harry Margalit

9 Disjunctions in New Zealand Architecture

Paul Walker

10 Assembling Chinese Modernism

Duanfang Lu

11 Korean Architecture, c. 2020: Group 4.3 and Four Important Trends

Hyu-Tae Jung and Junghyun Park

12 Shahyad Tower: Two Tendencies in One Ideological Symbol

Motehareh Danaeifar

13 Oil, Utopia, and the Architecture of the Off-Modern: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

Planning in 1930s Iran

Rahmatollah Amirjani

Index