The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia: A Lead from Display-ness

Francis Chia-Hui Lin

The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia: A Lead from Display-ness
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
16 February 2022
Pages
238
ISBN
9781793614032

The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia: A Lead from Display-ness

Francis Chia-Hui Lin

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.

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