The Earth That Modernism Built

University of Texas Press

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Earth as an Object of Design
- From Determinism to Determination
- Earth-Boundedness as (Anti-)Modernism
- Geopower and Biopower
- Deployments of Settlement
- Racializing the Rural
- A Constellation of Relationships
Chapter 1: Rooting Life in Land
- Settlement between Colonialism and Reform
- Theorizing Cultivation as Colonization
- Designing Earth-Boundedness
- Conflicts and Failures of Transplantation
- Earth-Boundedness in the Wake of Genocide
Chapter 2: Arts and Technics of Internal Colonialism
- Nativizing the Farmhouse
- Reading Landscape, Making Race
- Biopolitics of the Vernacular
- Designing Colonial Order
- Building Logistics and Imperial Regionalism
Chapter 3: Technifying the Soil, Designing the Human
- From Soil Science to Social Order
- Urban Gardening as Domestic Colonization
- Grounding Biological Functionalism
Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Planetary Design
- Empire’s Technological Nature
- Design and Geopolitics, a Wartime Alliance
- Geopolitics after Empire?
- World Order by Design
- Engineering Continents to Uphold Supremacy
- Infrastructural Specters
Epilogue: Spaceship Earth
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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