Nationalism and urban design:: the parliament houses of Canberra and Bangkok

• Sidh Sintusingha ^[1] ; Ross King ^[1]
  1. [1] Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning,The university of Melbourne,Parkville,Australia
• Localización: Journal of urban design, ISSN 1357-4809, ISSN-e 1469-9664, Nº. 26, 4, 2021, págs. 496-513
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Both Canberra and Bangkok have in recent times invoked design competitions to initiate new Parliament buildings. The Canberra case was in a tradition of open international competition, that of Bangkok limited to Thai architects, with both bringing ‘the nation’ into deliberation. In each, the design needed to negotiate an established urban landscape: in Canberra an urban design of axial set-pieces, formal and geometric, of largely US derivation; in Bangkok, a less ordered urban landscape, organically evolved over centuries. The resulting urban design complexes raise questions of how the idea of the nation is to be represented in urban space