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

By 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793614032
• ISBN13: 9781793614032
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"