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Author : Jane Beamish,Jane Ferguson
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015011964890
Author : Jane Beamish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1358647639
Author : Julian Davison
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architectural firms
ISBN : 193593547X
Swan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 1892 through to independence in 1965. As such, the history of Singapore architecture, during that period, is very much the history of Swan & Maclaren. The output of the firm was extraordinary, ranging from corporate blockbusters like the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and the Union Building of the 1920s, to factories, shophouses, department stores, hotels, schools and university buildings, railway stations, churches, mosques, a synagogue, bungalows, even the odd cattle shed. 0The scope of the book covers the period from the mid-1880s, when the two eponymous founding partners, Archibald A. Swan and J.W.B. Maclaren first came to Singapore, and continues through to the end of the British era in 1965.
Author : Yeo Kang Shua
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9813251441
An architectural and historical study of Singapore's oldest Teochew Temple. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers settled in Singapore. Surrounded by the skyscrapers of Singapore's central business district, Wak Hai Cheng Bio temple traces its history back to the earliest days of the colony. While no written sources or inscriptions commemorate the founding of the temple, Yeo Kang Shua's book delves into the history of the temple's foundation, encountering a rich history along the way. Poetic and commemorative, Yeo attends to the testimony of the building itself--the location, materials, ornamentation, and artwork that charge the space with meaning. Divine Custody tells the story of a temple that formed and was formed by its community. Of interest to heritage studies and those seeking to understand the experience of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, this book is exemplary in the way it uses material culture and architectural history as historical sources.
Author : Robert Powell
Publisher : Periplus Editions
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064947172
Singapore Architecture portrays the intruiging architectural heritage of Asia's crossroads city. Singapore's exotic mix of people and colorful history is reflected in the city's architecture. The early temples, shop houses and colonial monuments are documented, through to the growth of the modern city and a skyline which reflects Singapore's role as a global city. The broad spectrum of Singapore's buildings is displayed with private houses, public buildings, public housing, shrines, mosques and office towers. The major landmark buildings of downtown Singapore have been designed by celebrated international architects. The recent work of local architects represents a unique and dynamic mix of cross-cultural influences, combining Asian style with a thorough knowledge of Modern architecture
Author : Patrick Bingham-Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9814428000
Author : C.M. Turnbull
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971694302
When C.M. Turnbull's A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to the elections held in 1988. In this fully revised edition, rewritten to take into account recent scholarship on Singapore, the author has added a chapter on Goh Chok Tong's premiership (1990-2004) and the transition to a government headed by Lee Hsien Loong. The book now ends in 2005, when the Republic of Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary as an independent nation. Major changes occurred in the 1990s as the generation of leaders that oversaw the transition from a colony to independence stepped aside in favour of a younger generation of leaders. Their task was to shape a course that sustained the economic growth and social stability achieved by their predecessors, and they would be tested towards the end of the decade when Southeast Asia experienced a severe financial crisis. Many modern studies on Singapore focus on current affairs or very recent events and pay a great deal of attention to Singapore's successful transition from the developing to the developed world. However, younger historians are increasingly interested in other aspects of the country's past, particularly social and cultural issues. A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 provides a solid foundation and an overarching framework for this research, surveying Singapore's trajectory from a small British port to a major trading and financial hub within the British Empire and finally to the modern city state that Singapore became after gaining independence in 1965.
Author : Jiat-Hwee Chang,Imran bin Tajudeen
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UGA:32108058020598
What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. The book transforms our understandings of the region's modern architecture by moving beyond a consideration of architecture as an aesthetic artifact and instead examining its entanglement with different dynamics of power.
Author : Constance Mary Turnbull
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054031094
This book traces the development of Singapore from 1819, when the English East India Company established a trading settlement on the island, until 1985, which ended Singapore's first twenty years as an independent nation. Based on research into government records, newspapers, private papers and secondary works, it provides the first full-scale history of modern Singapore.
Author : William Siew Wai Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015059283666
Author : Jiat-Hwee Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317495680
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies, medical theories and sanitary practices, and were manifested in colonial building types such as military barracks, hospitals and housing. It also explores the various ways these colonial knowledge and practices shaped post-war techno scientific research and education in climatic design and modern tropical architecture. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarships on postcolonial studies, science studies, and environmental history, Jiat-Hwee Chang argues that tropical architecture was inextricably entangled with the socio-cultural constructions of tropical nature, and the politics of colonial governance and postcolonial development in the British colonial and post-colonial networks. By bringing to light new historical materials through formidable research and tracing the history of tropical architecture beyond what is widely considered today as its "founding moment" in the mid-twentieth century, this important and original book revises our understanding of colonial built environment. It also provides a new historical framework that significantly bears upon contemporary concerns with climatic design and sustainable architecture. This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations. Its in-depth discussion and path breaking insights will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners.
Author : Bainbridge Bunting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674372913
This history of Harvard's architecture examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, and the work of other architects such as Charles McKim, Gropius and Le Corbusier.
Author : Peter Herrle,Stephanus Schmitz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783643102768
The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.
Author : Ryan Bishop,John Phillips,Wei-Wei Yeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134422777
Treated from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book addresses and challenges issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.
Author : Kip Lin Lee
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9814634018
The Singapore House is a comprehensive study of the various domestic architectural styles that thrived in Singapore from 1819 until the outbreak of the Pacific War--from English, Georgian, Victorian, Eclectic, Edwardian, Baroque, Arts and Crafts and Modern International to the home-grown Coarsened Classical. Beautifully illustrated, The Singapore House marks a major attempt to document a rich and beautiful architectural legacy. The over 400 illustrations include rare historical materials, remarkable photographs and fascinating architectural drawings.
