Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia

A Lead from Display-ness

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Francis Chia-Hui Lin

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This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia’s spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional “common divisor” are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to Asia’s phenomenal postcolonial subjectivation and showcases Asia’s unique character. This book contends that the postcolonial condition of architecture in Asia suggests a potential and critical bridge to better understanding of the region. Theoretically, “display-ness” is a strategic and allegoric carrier that is in the focus of this book in order to emphasize the quality of display in a broader sense of time and space. Asia’s architectural and urban spectacle thus is meaningly magnified and intensified with this notion of display-ness to ground the cohesive abstraction among ideological discourse production, innovative theorizations, and empirical phenomena in contemporary scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-15
Mått159 x 238 x 13 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor238
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793614056

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List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: “Display-ness” as an Intersubjective ContainerPart I: The Located Asia1. The Muséal Display: Sir, Do Not Touch the Glass2. The Philosophy of History: Asia’s Formalistic Quotation3. Built Heritage Conservation Theories: From Sleeping Beauty to Men in BlackPart II: The Asian Location4. Colony Architecture Revisited: Who Does Who and Who Is Who?5. Un-Writing Asian Urbanism: Unexpectedness and Under-Theorization Reversed6. Musealization of the Asian Built Environment: Contained Iconology and IconomyConclusion: Decontextualisation and Recontextualisation of Asian Architectural TheoryBibliographyIndex About the Author

Provocative, perceptive, and timely, The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia is a must-read for scholars concerned with the challenges and specificities of history and theory when defining and discussing architecture and urbanism in contemporary Asia. Francis Chia-Hui Lin takes readers across a series of urban sites, buildings, and landscapes and asks that we re-think the Asian city on its own terms—historic, political, social, environmental, and aesthetic. With stunning precision and sweeping geographic range, he reframes our theoretical lens through deep insights into Asia’s postcolonial inheritance and the tendency toward strategies of display. This is a book that demands that we look with fresh eyes at what are today the world’s most vital urban settings.