Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia

​Francis Chia-Hui Lin is assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. He is an architectural historian, theorist and curator by training with a specialist focus on the postcoloniality of the Asia Pacific region. He is the author of Heteroglossic Asia (2015).

• 1. Introduction: Writing and Un-writing Asian Architecture.- Part One: Theorised Asia.- 2. The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia.- 3. Trans-boundary Methodologies: Cultural Appropriation and Heteroglossia.- 4. Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture.- Part Two: Asianised Theory.- 5. The Tenryuubito and the Resistance to it: Exemplifying Cultural-political Enclaves.- 6. Non-native Natives and Insular Urbanism: The Matter of Communitarian Localities in Asia.- 7. Exhibitions without Exhibits: Musealising History and Architecture.- 8. Conclusion: The Entanglement or the Différend?.