Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies: Epistemic Imposition at the Beginning of the 20th Century

ISBN-13: 9781032319827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

David Hutama Setiadi

Opis

This book reveals the ‘Epistemic Imposition’ of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the present day in what is now known as Indonesia.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Towards a Modern Colony  2. The Dutch East Indies as a Fictional Land  3. Migration of Technical Knowledge  4. Migration of Architectural Discourse  5. Migration of Domestic Space  Conclusion

O autorze

David Hutama Setiadi is an architecture historian and educator in Indonesia. He was commissioned as the co-curator of Pavilion Indonesia at the 14th and the 16th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venice – Italy (2014 & 2018). He graduated from the PhD program at AA School of Architecture London, UK in 2021 and from 2018–2020, he also registered as an Affiliated Research Fellow at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Currently, he manages NenunRuang, an open education platform for architecture and design in Indonesia.