Power Identity and the Rise of Modern Architecture Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Universal-Publishers
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• Release Date : 29 May 2024

This dissertation examines the evolution of Western and Modern architecture in Siam and Thailand. It illustrates how various architectural ideas have contributed to the physical design and spatial configuration of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 01 May 2014

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence

• Publisher : SAGE
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• Release Date : 20 January 2012

"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 02 November 2010

This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's part in the transnational development

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 17 July 2023

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations –

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 29 May 2024

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition

• Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
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• Release Date : 10 October 2012

With rich photography and insightful commentary, this Thai architecture and interior design book showcases some of the finest modern masterpieces in Southeast Asia. A tremendous body of sophisticated and sensitively

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
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• Release Date : 28 February 2021

“Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early

• Publisher : Syracuse University Press
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• Release Date : 30 June 2022

Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe,

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
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• Release Date : 31 July 2013

The ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world’s imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones’