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Common Artefacts
Author(s) -
Lee Christopher CM
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1503
Subject(s) - beijing , orientalism , china , context (archaeology) , architecture , identity (music) , principal (computer security) , history , sociology , archaeology , aesthetics , art , computer science , operating system
Abstract With offices in Beijing, Mumbai and London, Serie Architects is an international practice that spans Asia. Here, co‐founder and principal Christopher CM Lee looks beyond the superficial ‘exotic’ stereotypical image of ‘orientalism’ that was traditionally imposed on Asia by the West. With particular reference to Serie Architects' Tote, Mumbai, and Yan Zhenqing Museum in Linyi, China, he shifts the question of identity to what is common within the context of architectural production: what might imbue architecture with social and cultural validity? How might it be possible to attempt to create ‘common artefacts’ through the most typical elements – the ‘dominant types’.