现代性与多元现代性 现代建筑历史编纂的新挑战

Modernity and Modernities Challenges for the Historiography of Modern Architecture

文章指出自马歇尔·伯曼的现代性理论以来,现代性讨论一直被视作20世纪建筑史写作的基础范畴。新一代建筑历史写作不仅考虑了伯曼关于现代性的体验,也关注到地缘政治的变化:第一世界的现代性在第二世界中有某种"双生",殖民与后殖民状况引发第三世界多元现代性的兴起。这些变化着的地缘政治和文化理解对现代建筑历史编撰提出了新挑战。

Since Marshall Berman first theorized modernity as the experience of all that is solid melting into air, we have come a long way in discussing modernity as a fundamental category for the writing of the history of architecture in the 20th century. Not only Berman＇s account of how the experience of modernity has been processed in literature, but also geo-political changes such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of new economic power centers have been influential factors in inspiring new outlooks. By now we are trying to cope with the idea that the modernity of the first world had some kind of twin in the second world. We are struggling as well to understand how colonial and postcolonial conditions provoked versions of these modernities to emerge in （what used to be called） the third world, and how they affected the built environment as well as the lives of the people. Postcolonial theories have played a role in this process by somehow ＇provincializing Europe＇ （Chakrabarty） and urging us to overcome the Eurocentric viewpoint that structures so many historiographic narratives. These changing geo-political conditions and cultural understandings pose challenges for the writing of architectural histories.