Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia : The Polychronotypic Jetztzeit

This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of contemporary Asia's architectural theorisations and phenomena based on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character. Lin presents a theoretical journey of transdisciplinary reflection upon contemporary Asia's pragmatic phenomena w...

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Main Author Lin, Francis Chia-Hui (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319584331
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58433-1
Physical DescriptionXIX, 266 p. 30 illus., 25 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Writing and Un-writing Asian Architecture.- Part One: Theorised Asia
  • 2. The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia
  • 3. Trans-boundary Methodologies: Cultural Appropriation and Heteroglossia
  • 4. Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture.- Part Two: Asianised Theory
  • 5. The Tenryuubito and the Resistance to it: Exemplifying Cultural-political Enclaves
  • 6. Non-native Natives and Insular Urbanism: The Matter of Communitarian Localities in Asia
  • 7. Exhibitions without Exhibits: Musealising History and Architecture
  • 8. Conclusion: The Entanglement or the Différend?