Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History

Rujivacharakul, Vimalin; et al.

ISBN 10: 0824839528 / ISBN 13: 9780824839529

Published by University of Hawai?i Press, Honolulu Hawai'i, 2014

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Octavo in gray boards, gilt titles to spine; dust jacket; 301 pp: Illustrations, photographs, maps; (b&w, color); 27 cm. Contents: Asia in world architecture and world cartography | Vimalin Rujivacharakul. Imagining Asia from the margins: early Portuguese mappings of the continent's architecture and space | Zolt?n Biedermann. Mountains and streams: architecturalizing landscapes in medieval Korea | Remco E. Breuker. The entry of Yaxiya/Asia: the (re)construction of global geography in early modern China | Yuming He. Abstract spaces of Asia, Indochina, and empire in the French imaginaire | H. Hazel Hahn. The Eurasian hour: Ratzel, Mackinder, and the architecture of geopolitical identity | Peter Christensen. Java's architectural enigma: the Austronesian world and the limits of "Asia" | Imran bin Tajudeen. Colonialism and its discontents: caitya halls and the constructed origins of South Asian Buddhist architecture / David Efurd. Asia outside Asia: the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exhibition | Ken Tadashi Oshima. Construire le style indochinois: identity formation through geopolitical territory and architecture | Caroline Herbelin. Land as an architectural idea in modern Japan | Seng Kuan. Communist mosques: forgotten futures of late Soviet Central Asia | Igor Demchenko. Shifting gaze: Irano-Persian architecture from the great game to a nation-state. Talinn Grigor. Fine in fine dust jacket; boards smooth; pages bright and crisp; binding tight; dust jacket is clean and glossy First ed., first printing (full number line).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History
• Publisher: University of Hawai?i Press, Honolulu Hawai'i
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824839528
• ISBN 13: 9780824839529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • English
  • Art, Architecture, Design & Photography

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Synopsis

This collection explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia’s boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. The editors―architectural scholars at University of Delaware, Seattle University, University of Washington and Harvard University, respectively―attracted contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America.

The manuscript consists of three sections―in Mapping Asia: Architectural Symbols from Medieval to Early Modern Periods, authors examine icons and symbols in maps and textual descriptions and other early evidence about Asian architecture. Incorporating archival materials from Asia and Europe, the essays present views of Asian architecture seen from those who lived on the continent, those who saw themselves residing along the margins, and those who identified themselves as outsiders. The second section, Conjugating Asia: The Long-Nineteenth Century and its Impetus, explores the construction of the field of Asian architecture and the political imagination of Asian built environments in the nineteenth century. It discusses the parallel narratives of colonialism and Orientalism in the construction of Asia and its architectural environment, mapping how empire-expanding influences from Europe and North America have defined “Asia” and its regions through new vocabularies and concepts, which include, among others, “Eurasia,” “Jap-Alaska,” “Asie coloniale,” “the Orient,” and “Further India.” The third section, Manifesting Asia: Building the Continent with Architecture, addresses the physical realization of “Asian” geographic ideas within a set of specific local and regional contexts in the twentieth century. It examines tangible constructions as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia, and discusses their construction processes, materials and critical receptions as evidence of the physical's reciprocal relationship to the conceptual. Regions and conditions covered include French Indochina, Iran, post-Soviet Central Asia, Japanese landscape, and the construction of the Afro-Asian built environment.

About the Authors

Vimalin Rujivacharakul is associate professor of history of art and architecture at the University of Delaware.

H. Hazel Hahn is associate professor of history at Seattle University.

Ken Tadashi Oshima is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Peter Christensen is research associate at Technische Universitat Munchen (TU Munich).