TY - JOUR AU - Chang, Jiat-Hwee PY - 2017/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Before and behind the Pioneers of Modern Architecture in Singapore JF - Docomomo Journal JA - docomomo VL - IS - 57 SE - Essays DO - 10.52200/57.A.0448WLR4 UR - https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/298 SP - 56-63 AB - <p>This article situates the emergence of pioneer modern architects and architecture of Singapore in the longer history of colonial and post-colonial modernities and modernization, and in relation to socio-economic forces of capitalism and socio-political influences of the modern state in both the colonial and post-colonial eras. Rather than understand modern architecture in terms of style, this article goes behind style to explore the social, economic, technological and political conditions of producing modern architecture.</p> ER -