Contemporary Asian Architecture in a Postcolonial Context

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Dehors Architectural Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Offering a broader understanding of contemporary architecture and urbanism in Asia, Francis Chia Hui Lin raises questions from ‘non-conventional’ (‘non-Western’) perspectives that can adapt and enrich conventional understanding in an Asian context. With a strategic focus on urban maritime Asia, this book highlights key postcolonial concepts, locales, and the agency of the postcolonial condition of Asian architecture in a global context. Addressing the conventional ideologies by which architecture is assessed, the author outlines an epistemic bridge that situates the colonial character of Asian architecture within a global historical and theoretical context.Contemporary Asian architectural histories are marked not only by the influence of the Western architectural canon but also by a sense of temporality that reflects an ongoing process of subjectivation. Providing insight into these histories, the author proposes a methodology that extends the notion of the postcolonial comportment beyond its conventional historical context and into the spatial register of theorisation. By interviewing critical postcolonial theory with empirical analysis of contemporary Asian architecture and urbanisation, this book offers a critical lens for understanding Asia not simply as a site of architectural production, but as a theoretical interlocutor in the global rethinking of space, time and power.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666973914

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List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Colony architecture as an épistémè1 Architectural Orientalism in Singapore: Display and postcolonial governmentality2 The double consciousness of Malaysia’s subaltern urbanism: Ethnicity and spatial negotiation3 The colonial culture of Japanese architecture: Imperial modernity and translation4 Australia, a geography of vernacular cosmopolitanism: Migration and belonging5 The spatio-tectonic imperatives in Hong Kong: Infrastructure and colonial capitalism6 The heteroglossic formalism of Taiwan’s urban/rural politics: Development and identity7 The imagined subjectivation of urban Asia: Representation and citizenship8 The musealised fluidity of Asia’s postcolonial geopolitics: Heritage and mobility9 Postcoloniality, architectural pedagogy and the Asian curriculum development: Epistemic translation10 The Asian postcolonial heterotopias of the post-pandemic Anthropocene: Governance and exceptionEpilogue: A Foucauldian common divisor and those yet to be mentionedBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

In Contemporary Asian Architecture in a Postcolonial Context, Francis Chia Hui Lin formulates an exciting intersection between postcolonial theory, played out across a wide range of buildings and cities in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. His Foucauldian 'postcolonial comportment' allows for sophisticated theoretical nuances to interplay with detailed empirical studies, and creates an intense, erudite and suggestive publication. Highly recommended.