Contemporary Asian Architecture in a Postcolonial Context : Dehors Architectural Theory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Francis Chia Hui.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Asian.

Architecture--Asia.

Architecture.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Postcolonialism and the arts--Asia.

Postcolonialism and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Offering a broader understanding of contemporary architecture and urbanism in Asia, Francis Chia Hui Lin raises questions from 'non-conventional' ('non-Western') perspectives that can adapt and enrich conventional understanding in an Asian context.

Contents:

Colony architecture as an épistémè

Architectural orientalism in Singapore : display and postcolonial governmentality

The double consciousness of Malaysia's subaltern urbanism : ethnicity and spatial negotiation

The colonial culture of Japanese architecture : imperial modernity and translation

Australia, a geography of vernacular cosmopolitanism : migration and belonging

The spatio-tectonic imperatives in Hong Kong : infrastructure and colonial capitalism

The heteroglossic formalism of Taiwan's urban/rural politics : development and identity

The imagined subjectivation of urban Asia : representation and citizenship

The musealised fluidity of Asia's postcolonial geopolitics : heritage and mobility

Postcoloniality, architectural pedagogy and the Asian curriculum development : epistemic translation

The Asian postcolonial heterotopias of the post-pandemic Anthropocene : governance and exception

A Foucauldian common divisor and those yet to be mentioned.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Lin, Francis Chia Hui Contemporary Asian Architecture in a Postcolonial Context

ISBN:

9798216253075

OCLC:

1603127026