Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen, Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture, Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power

Abstract

This book explores the history of architecture in Southeast Asia in the twentieth century through a series of historiographical reflections and several case studies of Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. One of the greatest merits of this book is to rethink how the local articulates with the global by questioning the links between regionality and architecture. Interrogations of Southeast Asia as a framework for reflection open and close the book. In their Intr...