本計畫是我長期對於由亞太地區經驗性城市與建築空間展示性中衍生的理論分析，作為與目前學界以西方建築論述為主之論述相互平衡這樣的目的之下所提出的一個子題。作為這個子題策略性的研究範圍設計，在本計畫中我選定了新加坡與澳洲作為本計畫地域性的目標案例，這兩個案例的探查除了可以提供他們各自做為代表性國家的東南亞以及南半球太平洋地區之之外，這個策略性的目標案例選擇也扣連著我對於亞洲崛起現象下亞洲如何被定位以及亞洲的地域性如何相對被建立的方法論提問。這樣的方法論所追求的是：一、建立一個多元複雜的亞洲可被比較論述的平台。以及，二、強化今日亞太地區密不可分的全球化以及地域性權力與知識之支配關係。本計畫所要執行的經驗性案例考察將會著重於亞太地區在城市與建築於其文化底蘊及場所特徵下所呈現的史實性。更重要的是他們與當下主流西方論述間微妙的支配關係。本計畫所採取的觀點是相對於科學理性分析之下的美學經驗分析。此分析的理論畫過程將會建立於以做為亞洲後殖民情狀再現形式之一的建築為觀點的批判性研究考察。
This project represents a continuous task of my long-term interest in architectural theorisations generated from not only the West-centric architectural discourse but also from the observations and analyses of empirical architectural and urban display within the Asia Pacific region. As a strategic scope, the geographic context selected in this project is narrowed down to Singapore and Australia, in which represent the geopolitical concern with Southeast Asia and its important Pacific neighbourhood. This project will be methodologically achieved by means of elaborations of how Asia is notionally located and how Asian localities are characteristically identified. Therefore, studies in the project are integrated with comparative studies focused on regions including Asia and Australia. The reasons are: one, to build a comparative platform for the generated discourse, and, two, to highlight the inevitable relationship between the Pacific region and Asia today under a global-local context of regionalism. All the empirical examinations will be highlights of phenomenal urban and built cases, cultures and localities which represent and reference the historicity of the Asia Pacific region, Asia’s contemporary architectural situations, and their nuanced relationship with the ‘West’. This project employs not entirely scientific perspectives since this project is an examination of theorisations; instead, aesthetic experience perceived from Asia’s architectural representation as a form of postcoloniality will be the main standpoint.
