@article {Mckean:April 2006:1360-2365:187,
	author = "Mckean, John",
	title = "Sir Banister Fletcher: pillar to postcolonial readings",
	journal = "The Journal of Architecture",
	volume = "11",
	year = "April 2006",
	abstract = "Looking at world architecture in a post-colonial light, what is the possibility for a `world history of architecture'? This question is approached through thoughts on east-west plunderings in architectural history and in the strange double image of world history portrayed in Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture , which (in all but the earliest and very latest editions) divided the world into `The Historical Styles' and `The Non-historical Styles'. Resonating throughout this text, which began as a paper to a conference on `Globalisation and Representation',1 is the knowledge that the author has been commissioned to undertake a completely new text for the next edition of Banister Fletcher, for which work started in November, 2005. Pointers to how that project might proceed include its becoming a dual work, aware of the unspoken space between: — a narrative with stress on points of cultural intersection and articulation of hybridity (after Homi Bhabha) rather than on the `constituent' as opposed to `transitory' facts of architectural history (after Siegfried Giedion), and: — an archive of illustrated places, itself a social construct but one which recognises the role of viewer/reader in its [re]construction—for images are there to be plundered and misread, which is always their fate in the hands of creative designers.",
	pages = "187-204(18)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjar/2006/00000011/00000002/art00003"
	doi = "doi:10.1080/13602360600786126"
}