Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Futureis a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in architecture, as well as the intertwining of both in the context of colonialism and decolonisation. Colonial Modern is a reflection of contemporary research into architectural modernism and colonialism, and uses the thesis of “negotiated modernism” to initiate new debates on conceptions of modernism—and inevitably postmodernism—in an interdisciplinary context.

Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, Marion von Osten (eds.) Colonial Modern. Asthetics of the Past Rebellions for the Future. (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010)