This anthology collects developing scholarship on modernism that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks.

Introduction; 1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett); PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives; 2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil's Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real); 3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA's Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (María González Pendás); 4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture's Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim); 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek); PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism 6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink); 7. Intra-action: Barad's "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak); 8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan); PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism 9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie); 10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism's Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto's Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili); 11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain); PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism 12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo); 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux); 14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia's "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris); PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism); 15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli); 16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber); 17. Provincializing ENI's Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto); 18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley); Afterword; 19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone); Index