The postcolonial condition of architecture in Asia : a lead from display-ness /
by Francis Chia-Hui Lin,
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2022
- 1 online resource (238, pages) : color illustrations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Display-ness” as an intersubjective container -- I. The located Asia -- 1. The Muséal display : sir, do not touch the glass -- 2. The philosophy of history : Asia’s formalistic quotation -- 3. Built heritage conservation theories : from sleeping beauty to men in black -- II. The Asian location -- 4. Colony architecture revisited : who does who and who is who? -- 5. Un-writing Asian urbanism : unexpectedness and under-theorization reversed -- 6. Musealization of the Asian built environment : contained iconology and iconomy
"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"--
9781793614032 (e-book)
Architecture--Philosophy -- Asia Architecture Philosophy Identity (Psychology) in architecture