TOA2 - SOUTHEAST ASIA MODERN

MODERN ASIAN ARCHITECTURE

- rooted in a desire to move away from a western-centric universality and instead identify universality represented by asias own unique architectural movements

- 20th-century architectural heritage faced a sense of crisis due to the threat of scrap-and-build

MODERN ASIAN ARCHITECTURE NETWORK

- established by DR. JOHANNES WIDODO and OTHER RESEARCHERS

- loosely knit network committed to studying, preserving, and rehabilitating of modern architecture across Asia

THE MAAN DECLARATION

- modern asia did not develop in a vacuu but through sustained interactions with the west

The mASEANa Project

- launched in tokyo in 2015, a collaboration between speacialists from 9 asean countris and icomos and docomomo

- the project sought to address the urgent need to identify, evaluate, record, and refurbish examples of the Modern Movement in Southeast Asia

CORE OBJECTIVES OF MASEANA

- comprehensive inventory of modern buildings

- write a localized history of SEA architecture

- suggest specific methods for their preservation

SCOPE AND METHOFOLOGY OF MASEANA

- the period from pre-wwii to the 1980

- indexing 100 buildings across 9 participating cities in eight countries

KENGO HAYASHI

- the 8 major architectural phenomena

EMERGENCE OF MODERN FACILITIES BY WESTERN POWERS

- western-impacted transportation and public market

ETHICAL BUILDINGS WITH ORIENTALISM

- architecture fusing local culture and environment often promoting bureaucacy and education

NON-WESTERN COLONIAL BUILDINGS WITH JAPANESE IMPERIALISM

- primarily shrines, housing, and loyalist monuments

NATIONAL BUILDING BY LOCAL ARCHITECTURE

- new public facilities built to promote self-reliance and national unity following independence

NATION BUILDING UNDER POST-COLONIALISM AND THE COLD WAR

- projects created via foreign aid

- involving local and wester design participation

LOCALIZING MODERN LIVING AND LIFESTYLE

- supply modern housing, cultural facilities, and theaters to support urban life

ECONOMIC GROWTH UNDER DICTATORSHIP

- trend in iconic skyscraper and unique designs, often commisioned to prominent foreign characters

TROPICALITY

- exploration of climate-adaptive designs

VIETNAM

- indochinese syle

- fusion of western spatial organization and construction with traditional _____ ornaments and climate-adaptive features

MYANMAR

- socialist movement

- state control to the modernization process through an ideology of nationalism

INDONESIA

- national unity and regionalism

- president sukarno promoted architecture as a tool for national unity

- suharto era shifted toward regionalist expressions

CAMBODIA

- new khemer architecture

- movement expressing national identity throough tropical adaptation and modern forms after independence

THAILAND

- architectural propaganda

- architecture used post-1932 to represent new ideologies following the shift to a constitutional monarchy

MALAYSIA

- democratic values

- post-independence focused on communicating openness, transparenc, and preservation of local culture

SINGAPORE

- everyday & heroic modernism

- everyday modernism stems from welffare planning

- heroic modernism refes to the large-scale buildings produced by overseas returnees

PHILIPPINES

- nationalist modern

- focused on nation-building though the early 20th century preacetime is often remembered with nostalgia