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Soon-Tzu Speechley is Lecturer in Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Soon-Tzu Speechley has broken new ground with this detailed and insightful study of classical architecture on the Malay Peninsula. Considering the style in both its colonial and creolized forms, the book adds substantially to the history of classicism, including our understanding of the architecture of the colonial encounter more generally. * G. A. Bremner, University of Edinburgh, UK * Speechley narrates the long pageant of Malayan architectural history, paying simultaneous attention to political and social milieu, architectural professionalism and client aspirations. In his wide-ranging discourse, he reminds us that in provincial capitals of empire, classicism was everywhere, but classical purity was nowhere. Malayan Classicism succeeds in decoding architectural Babel without the usual distortion of cultural bias. For sure, Speechley belongs to a new generation of architectural historians for whom civilisations did not clash but cleverly conversed, competed and collaborated in the making of cities. * Khoo Salma Nasution, Penang Heritage Trust, Malaysia *
Outstanding
The Relief from Classicism to the...
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David after David
Essays on the Later Work
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Empire of Ruin
Black Classicism and American Imperial...
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The Living Death of Antiquity
Neoclassical Aesthetics
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