Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction: Writing and Unwriting Asian Architecture

   • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

   Pages 1-33

3. Conclusion: The Entanglement or the Différend?

   • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

   Pages 241-245

4. Theorised Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 37-70

   3. Trans-boundary Methodologies: Cultural Appropriation and Heteroglossia

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 71-100

   4. Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 101-137

5. Asianised Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. The Tenryuubito and the Resistance to It: Exemplifying Cultural-Political Enclaves

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 141-168

   3. Non-native Natives and Insular Urbanism: The Matter of Communitarian Localities in Asia

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 169-197

   4. Exhibitions Without Exhibits: Musealising History and Architecture

      • Francis Chia-Hui Lin

      Pages 199-240

6. Back Matter

   Pages 247-266

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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 which is methodologically achieved by means of elaborations of how tangible Asian architecture can be philosophically theorised and how interchangeable architectural theory is practically ‘Asianised’. Discussions in the book are critically integrated with comparative studies focused on Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. These empirical examinations are highlights of phenomenal localities, architecture, cities and cultures which reference the historicity of the Asia Pacific, Asia’s contemporary architectural situations, and their subtle relationship with the ‘West’. The schematisation of intended ‘fuzziness’ for Asia and its architecture is framed asthe notion polychronotypic jetztzeit to represent a present time-place context of contemporary Asian architecture and urbanism. This book will be of great interest to scholars of Asian Studies, Architectural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies.

• Geography
• Architecture
• Critical theory
• Social theory
• Asian Studies
• Philosophy
• Postcolonial studies
• China
• Japan
• Taiwan
• Popular Culture
• area studies
• urban geography and urbanism
• urban geography and urbanism

• Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

  Francis Chia-Hui Lin

​Francis Chia-Hui Lin is assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. He is an architectural historian, theorist and curator by training with a specialist focus on the postcoloniality of the Asia Pacific region. He is the author of Heteroglossic Asia (2015).

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