
Chapter 4 examines the colonial imperative of economic reproduction and its relationship to technological reproducibility as such. The chapter opens with Daniel Burnham’s arrival in the Philippines in 1904 and the construction of the first architectural projects associated with his Philippine plans: the Manila Hotel and the Army and Navy Club, both built to attract foreign capital to the Philippines. The chapter then considers the most controversial result of concrete construction: its facilitation of the architectural replica through the work of William Parsons, the executor and developer of Burnham’s Philippine plans. Though Parsons specified standardized plans for schools, prisons, and open-air markets, he carefully avoided replication when designing for monumental civic programs. Following Parsons’s departure, fully replicated monumental structures mushroomed across the archipelago, casting doubt on the sincerity of the United States’ claims of delivering a timeless and artful civilization to the Philippines.
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