Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia - A Lead From Display-Ness

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. The author examines "display-ness" as a theoretical common divisor and argues that Asia's architectural and urban spectacle is as meaningful and significant as an indicator of Asia's postcolonial condition.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Display-ness" as an Intersubjective Container
Part 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
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

About the author

Francis Chia-Hui Lin is assistant professor at National Taiwan University.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Lin Francis Chia-Hui
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2024
• EAN: 9781793614056
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-405-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Ethnic Studies, Asia, ART / Museum Studies, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Modernism, History of Architecture, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General