Everyday modernism : architecture & society in Singapore / by Jiat-Hwee Chang and Justin Zhuang ; with photographs by Darren Soh.

Main entry:

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, author.

Title & Author:

Everyday modernism : architecture & society in Singapore / by Jiat-Hwee Chang and Justin Zhuang ; with photographs by Darren Soh.

Publication:

Singapore : Ridge Books/NUS Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Everyday Modernism is the first comprehensive documentation of Singapore's modern built environment. Through a lens of social, cultural, and architectural histories, the book uncovers the many untold stories of the Southeast Asian city-state's modernization, from the rise of heroic skyscrapers, such as the Pearl Bank Apartments, to the spread of typical utilitarian buildings like the multistory parking garage. It investigates how modernism, through both form and function, radically transformed Singapore and made its inhabitants into modern citizens. The most intensive period of such change, the author shows, happened in the 1960s and 1970s under the rise of a developmental state that sought to safeguard its new-found independence. The book also looks both earlier and later, however, ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s to cover a wider range of histories, building types, and architectural styles, expanding from the International Style and Brutalism into Art Deco and even a touch of Postmodernism. The book's essays are richly illustrated with hundreds of archival images and illustrations, as well as contemporary photos by architectural photographer Darren Soh. By examining the evolution of the once exceptional into the typical and by learning how abstract spaces become lived places, the book traces how modernism has become part of everyday life in Singapore.

ISBN:

9789813251878 (paperback)
9813251875 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Singapore History.
Buildings Singapore History 20th century.
Architecture and society Singapore History 20th century.
Constructions Singapour Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Singapour Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Singapour Histoire.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Buildings
Singapore Buildings, structures, etc.
Singapore

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Zhuang, Justin, author.
Soh, Darren, photographer.

Architecture & society in Singapore

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317612
Call No.: 317612
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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