Main entry:

SEAARC Symposium (1st : 2015 : Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore)

Title & Author:

Southeast Asia's modern architecture : questions of translation, epistemology, and power / editors, Jiat Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen.

Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

321 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historiographical questions in Southeast Asia's modern architecture / Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran Bin Tajudeen -- Tagore as celebrity tourist? Urban planning, tourism and architecture in colonial Saigon / H. Hazel Hahn -- The aesthetic citizen : translating modernism and fascism in mid twentieth-century Thailand / Lawrence Chua -- Cultivating Bali style : a story of Asian becoming in the late twentieth century / Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava -- Conservation diplomacy and the narratives of material antiquity / Tim Winter -- Thinking beyond the nation : repositioning national and regional identities through architectural discourse / Anoma Pieris -- "Manila beautiful" : urban hygiene and colonial architecture in the age of American imperialism (1898-1942) / Gerard Lico -- Forgotten memorials : the Consitutional [sic] Defense Monument and Democracy Temple in Bangkok, Thailand / Koompong Noobanjong -- People's Park complex : the state, the developer, the architect and the conditioned public, c.1967 to the present / Eunice Seng -- Women's prayer space : a feminist critique of Southeast Asian Islamic architectural history / Tutin Aryanti -- A fluvial regionality? / Mark Crinson.
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"--Back cover

ISBN:

9789814722780 (paperback)
9814722782 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Southeast Asia Congresses.
Architectural design Southeast Asia Congresses.
Architecture Asie du Sud-Est Congrès.
Design architectural Asie du Sud-Est Congrès.
Architectural design
Architecture
Southeast Asia

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, editor.
Imran bin Tajudeen, editor.
NUS Press, pubsliher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304782
Call No.: BIB 250498
Status: Available