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The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia

A Lead from Display-ness
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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.
Francis Chia-Hui Lin is assistant professor at National Taiwan University.
List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: "Display-ness" as an Intersubjective Container Part I: The Located Asia 1. The Museal 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 Part 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 Conclusion: Decontextualisation and Recontextualisation of Asian Architectural Theory Bibliography Index About the Author
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