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Works concerning "BANGKOK ON THE MOVE".

The works expressed by the participants are not necessarily those of art4d.

Why make a web page about skyscrapers in Bangkok when there are cities like Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore around the corner?
Bangkok Skyscrapers: Towers in the city of angels
"Simple. Because there's no other page on the subject. Thailand also has a very distinct architecture and culture and I just love the place."
Johan Jonsson

"...In the Bangkok exhibition time is the key because the whole nature, not the presentation of materials and ideas, but the actual consuming, usage of ideas and images exist in time, so the value of doing the show is a sort of immediacy, an awareness of time that isn't in somewhere like London or indeed Manhattan..."
D-project
D-project was realised in Bangkok October 1999, based in the About Cafe' and Gallery, Bangkok, within the exhibition Cities on the Move 6.

My Bangkok = Your Bangkok ?
My bangkok
Personal points of view from two Bangkokians who spend their lives over 30 years in Bangkok's traffic.

During the nineteenth century, Bangkok was transformed into a 'civilized' city according to the West. It was a part of the large-scale transformation of traditional ideology, technology and institutions, in order to protect the Kingdom of Siam from the force of Colonialism.
" Venice of the East Transformed: Reading Urban Representations of Bangkok at the Turn of the Century "
Excerpts from the paper presented at the International Seminar on Urban Form, July 1999. Prepared by Pirasri Povatong

Whither tradition or modernity, east or west? Is it possible for architecture in Asia to move beyond knee-jerk reactions of the politics of identity? If so, what are the alternative ways of framing architectural discourse in Asia?
"Beyond Critical Regionalism"
Kok Meng Tan is the Chief Editor of the SINGAPORE ARCHITECT journal.

"...Much later, we were made to be believe that this is the 'Thai' way of working: unstructured, information passed through informal networks, from hearsay. It reflects the unplanned typology of the city, someone quipped..."
"Invisible Cities On The Move"
Kok Meng Tan is the Chief Editor of the SINGAPORE ARCHITECT journal. He shows us what he thought and felt about "Bangkok On The Move" event.

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