Bangkok Utopia : : Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 /

Bangkok Utopia : : Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 / / Lawrence Chua; ed. by Xing Ruan, Ronald G. Knapp.

“Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
VerfasserIn:
Chua, Lawrence,
HerausgeberIn:
Knapp, Ronald G.,
Ruan, Xing,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 70 illustrations, 36 in color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transcription
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO. A Historical and Cosmological Framework
  • PART I. TOOLS
  • CHAPTER THREE. Diagramming Utopian Nationalism: Nibbāna and the City of Willows
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Modeling Queertopia
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Planning Kammatopia: The Politics of Representation and the Funeral Pyre
  • PART II. MATERIALS
  • CHAPTER SIX. Order and Odor: Sensuous Citizenship Formation and the Architecture of the Cinema
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Concretopia: Material and Hierarchy in the Age of Sri Ariya
  • PART III. SYSTEMS
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Floating Paradise: Infrastructure Space and Vimānas of the Cold War Era
  • CHAPTER NINE. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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