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Southeast Asia's modern architecture : questions of translation, epistemology and power /
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 conceptu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2019]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789813250628 9813250623 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |