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The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia : A Lead from Display-ness

Author :  Francis Chia-Hui Lin

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Country
United States
Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN 9781793614032
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 248 p,152 x 229mm
Categories Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Museology & heritage studies
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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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