The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia

A Lead from Display-ness

Francis Chia-Hui Lin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1403-2 (ISBN)

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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 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

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-7936-1403-2 / 1793614032
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1403-2 / 9781793614032
Zustand	Neuware