The post-pandemic architectural treatment in Taipei: a “postcolonial-urban” complex

The relief from the COVID-19 pandemic today is globally phenomenal. However, its architectural representation still suggests dramatic variables caused by different localities. Conspicuously, the imposition of social distancing has been displayed very differently in different places upon architectura...

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Vydáno v:Journal of Asian architecture and building engineering Ročník 24; číslo 3; s. 1064 - 1076
Hlavní autor: Lin, Francis Chia Hui
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Taylor & Francis Group 04.05.2025
Témata:
architecture
asia
post-pandemic
postcoloniality
urbanism
ISSN:1346-7581, 1347-2852
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Shrnutí:The relief from the COVID-19 pandemic today is globally phenomenal. However, its architectural representation still suggests dramatic variables caused by different localities. Conspicuously, the imposition of social distancing has been displayed very differently in different places upon architectural treatment. This paper argues that such a built scenario can be understood through a theorisation of a “postcolonial-urban complex” that integrates architecture’s inevitable engagement in the discourses of form and knowledge and the postcolonial values registered in spatial signification. The postcolonial-urban complex refers to a series of leads to a subject position of the post-pandemic-built environment, including a sense of counter-dualism, the dynamics of domination and the reified subjectivation. Existing scholarship of architectural and urban studies hence needs a thorough re-examination into the epistemic suitability for responding the immediate historicity. This paper argues that such a demand has become sensible from the recent situation of Asia and its architecture and urbanism – the engagement of some Asian metropolitan areas in shaping ephemeral and micro-geopolitical forms reacting to the limits caused by social distancing give evidence. To further consolidate such argumentation, this paper intends to examine semiotically and empirically the post-pandemic architectural treatment in Taipei, Taiwan, as a preliminary yet critical pilot study.
ISSN:1346-7581
1347-2852
DOI:10.1080/13467581.2024.2337015