SCREENING IDENTITIES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXILE
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THESIS STATEMENT When globalization is gaining its significance worldwide, it seems that there is a preconception that the world is suffering from uniformization. However, can globalization arise the awareness of localization? How is the difference between cultural invasion and cultural fusion? William S. Logan claimed in the Disappearing ‘Asian’ City that the complex interconnections between national and global cultural attitudes and behaviors might renovate and diversify the definition of cultural heritage. So by what means globalization dissolves or invades or fuses into one’s society? Spread of religious ideas through missionary brings in needs of religious architecture to accommodate related activities. Architects and expertise bring in knowledge from study abroad. Government policy might even tend to employ designers from abroad. Territory sovereignty promotes the intercrossing architectural style from a mother country that has been incorporated into the buildings of settlements or colonies in distant locations, from which colonial architecture synthesized the characteristics of the origin indigenous design to develop into a hybrid style. When a colony is released from colonial control of the mother country, does it indicate an era of liberation or identity homelessness? Architecture is a form of record for the historical truthness of a society. The richness of historical layer should be revealed in one’s architectural sources. How should we treat these properties to contribute in enriching one’s collective memories?
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT INTENDED TO TEST THE THESIS STATEMENT To study the significance of historical identity to a society. METHODOLOGICAL PROCESSES Research in a horizontal way…
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