The Aesthetics of Power: Architecture and Modernity and Idenity from Siam to Thailand
Description
The Aesthetics of Power: Architecture, Identity and Modernity from Siam to Thailand comprehensively examines the politics of representation in architecture and urban space from the 1850s to the present time. By utilizing the built environment as a mode of problematization for studying the Thai national and cultural identity 66 66 known as Thainess or khwampenthai 66 66 this book offers a broader discourse and generates debate on the political forms of architecture as well as on the architectural forms of politics. Divided into seven chapters with more than 150 illustrations, it investigates...
ISBN(s)
9744801972, 9789744801975
