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Southeast Asia's modern architecture : questions of translation, epistemology and power / editors, Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- SEAARC Symposium (1st : 2015 : Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Southeast Asia.
- Architecture.
- Architectural design--Southeast Asia.
- Architectural design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. The book transforms our understandings of the region's modern architecture by moving beyond a consideration of architecture as an aesthetic artifact and instead examining its entanglement with different dynamics of power.
- Contents:
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes
- Section one - Translation
- Chapter 1 - Tagore as a Celebrity Tourist?
- Chapter 2 - The Aesthetic Citizen
- Chapter 3 - Cultivating Bali Style
- Section two - Epistemology
- Chapter 4 - Conservation Diplomacy and the Narratives of Material Antiquity
- Chapter 5 - Thinking Beyond the Nation
- Section three - Power
- Chapter 6 - "Manila Beautiful"
- Chapter 7 - Forgotten Memorials
- Chapter 8 - People's Park Complex
- Chapter 9 - Women's Prayer Space
- Epilogue
- About the Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 981-325-062-3
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