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David Hutama Setiadi is an architecture historian and educator in Indonesia. He was commissioned as the co-curator of Pavilion Indonesia at the 14th and the 16th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venice – Italy (2014 & 2018). He graduated from the PhD program at AA School of Architecture London, UK in 2021 and from 2018–2020, he also registered as an Affiliated Research Fellow at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Currently, he manages NenunRuang, an open education platform for architecture and design in Indonesia.
“Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies is a stimulating work that offers a nuanced lens through which to understand the interactions that shaped and were shaped by building practices in the colonial world.” Robin Hartanto Honggare, Columbia University, JSAH December 2023 “….His book forms an important step…by raising key questions that help significantly in unsettling tendencies still common in scholarship on Dutch colonial architecture, with its strong “overseas” perspective and emphasis on the architect as the main agent of the narrative.” Johan Lagae, Ghent University, ABE Journal 2023
