The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are
cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and …

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the
ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark …

This paper puts forward a broadly postcolonial method for engaging with landscapes in
South Asia, in this case southern Sri Lanka. It argues that, as valuable as the familiar …

This paper explores the relationships between Sri Lanka's tropical architecture, its
negotiation of the Sri Lankan environment, and the post-colony's contested politics of …

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976),
focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from …

This paper aims to reveal and highlight an architectural influence of the United States in
Mao's China. It does so by studying three cases arranged chronologically from the 1960s to …

China's foreign aid has involved the exchange of huge amounts of money, manpower and
materials between donor and recipient countries over the past 70 years. Construction aid …

It is commonly assessed that Architect Valentine Gunasekara arrived at 'Expressionist
Modernism'towards the twilight of his career. Immediately after Ceylon's independence, an …

This study aims to identify middle-class consumers' habits in four countries during the
pandemic of 2020, with special attention to analogous consumers' reactions to extraordinary …

Abstract The legacy of Jane Drew and Minnette De Silva encompassed both rupture and
tradition. As modernist architects working largely in tropical contexts, they mastered …