Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture - Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	NUS Press
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	February 2019
Editors:	Jiat-hwee Chang • Imran Bin Tajudeen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-981-4722-78-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
LSN:	981-4722-78-2
Barcode:	9789814722780

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