Southeast Asian Modern: From Roots to Contemporary Turns
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Southeast Asian Modern: From Roots to Contemporary Turns
W039495 | $68.99 / 10% library disc.
Peter Rowe, Yun Fu. Birkhauser Verlag fur Architektur, Basel, 2022.
344 pp. well illustrated (all col.). 25 x 18 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783035624571
Peter Rowe and Yun Fu’s second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the 12 nation states of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, Philippines and Taiwan, as well as the ocean peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. The modern architecture of these culturally and nationally heterogenous regions echoes local vernacular traditions and colonial as well as postcolonial hegemonies from both the East and the West. The book tells the stories of these separate roots and their culmination into contemporary architectural production, analyzing the distinctiveness and quality of approx. 65 building projects that have emerged in the past half century.
Subject Headings: Asian Art (Western Style) ; Non-Western in a Western Style ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Architecture --
W039495 | $68.99 / 10% library disc.
Peter Rowe, Yun Fu. Birkhauser Verlag fur Architektur, Basel, 2022.
344 pp. well illustrated (all col.). 25 x 18 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783035624571
Peter Rowe and Yun Fu’s second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the 12 nation states of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, Philippines and Taiwan, as well as the ocean peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. The modern architecture of these culturally and nationally heterogenous regions echoes local vernacular traditions and colonial as well as postcolonial hegemonies from both the East and the West. The book tells the stories of these separate roots and their culmination into contemporary architectural production, analyzing the distinctiveness and quality of approx. 65 building projects that have emerged in the past half century.
Subject Headings: Asian Art (Western Style) ; Non-Western in a Western Style ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Architecture --
