Dettaglio del documento
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific : Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s
Abstract
A wide-ranging collection of case studies uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, and indentured labour.
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From Iran to Tasmania, Japan to Java, and Imperial China to the Pacific Islands, the chapters reveal how remnants of colonial trade and industry shed light on the many multi-faceted mobilities of the imperial age, and their enduring legacy in the postcolonial built environments of Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond.The chapters also reveal deep strands of cultural influences and material imprints long neglected by national histories of architecture, and showcase new methodologies to analyse the interconnectivities and bordering practices which are shaping our experiences of the 21st century.
With almost every chapter arising from new archival sources, this richly interdisciplinary volume brings together the work of architectural historians, geographers and heritage practitioners to provide a new understanding of the rich and contested history of this region.
This book illuminates a new geography of architectural histories through explorations of intracolonial encounters and exchanges across Asia Pacific (1800s-1940s). It reveals a complex field of transnational connectivity manifest in the built environments across of the world’s most disperse and culturally diverse region.
Buildings for industry, agriculture, and trade in Australia, the Pacific and South-East Asia share an important but forgotten history of encounter, exchange, and influence. Industrial heritage is also under-represented in World Heritage lists, with the Asia Pacific region poorly represented and global connections between industrial sites insufficiently understood. This book addresses these research gaps by examining unprecedented buildings for trade and industrial-scale resource extraction across Asia-Pacific’s multiple colonial entities and their successor nation-states.
The various chapters collected in this book help uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, and indentured labour. They reveal how remnants of colonial trade and industry shed light on the many multi-faceted mobilities of the imperial age, and their enduring legacy in the postcolonial built environments of Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond. They reveal the deep strands of cultural influence and material imprints long neglected by national histories of architecture. They also showcase new methodologies to analyse the dialectics of interconnectivity and bordering practice that are shaping our experiences of the 21st century.
This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together the works of architectural historians, architects, and heritage practitioners to provide a holistic view of the rich and contested architectural and urban history of this region.