Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective

Overviews of Southeast Asian houses often overlook Hispanised Philippine houses. This chapter suggests that we need a perspective that will include not only such houses but also vernacular houses using brick or stone in northern Vietnam and South Sumatra. The argument is framed around a number of ke...

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Main Author: Zialcita, Fernando N
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.sa-faculty-pubs-10932022-02-22T01:53:45Z Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective Zialcita, Fernando N Overviews of Southeast Asian houses often overlook Hispanised Philippine houses. This chapter suggests that we need a perspective that will include not only such houses but also vernacular houses using brick or stone in northern Vietnam and South Sumatra. The argument is framed around a number of key points. First, because Southeast Asia is a recent construct dating back only to 1944–1945, defining frameworks should be flexible. Second, to pursue the Austric-Tai hypothesis about the underlying unity of the three language families—Austronesian, Austroasiatic and Tai-Kadai—research in nonlinguistic domains like architecture is needed. Third, we should be wary of the lingering tendency to prioritise Indianisation as the key integrating motif and conversely to exclude Chinese and especially Western influences as an excrescence. Fourth, in the urban centres new influences may have reshaped indigenous traditions, but these indigenous traditions in turn localised the foreign. And finally, the localisation of once-foreign traditions could be analysed in the future on the basis of materiality, functionality and symbolism. For instance, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philippine house and South Sumatra’s rumah gedung seem similar in being constructed of wood above and stone below. What would the differences be in construction methods, function and symbolism? 2021-11-10T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/98 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-2438-4_12 Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Philippines Java Vietnam vernacular architecture architectural identity westernisation houses on piles Architectural History and Criticism Construction Engineering South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
institution Ateneo De Manila University
building Ateneo De Manila University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider Ateneo De Manila University Library
collection archium.Ateneo Institutional Repository
topic Philippines
Java
Vietnam
vernacular architecture
architectural identity
westernisation
houses on piles
Architectural History and Criticism
Construction Engineering
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
spellingShingle Philippines
Java
Vietnam
vernacular architecture
architectural identity
westernisation
houses on piles
Architectural History and Criticism
Construction Engineering
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Zialcita, Fernando N
Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
description Overviews of Southeast Asian houses often overlook Hispanised Philippine houses. This chapter suggests that we need a perspective that will include not only such houses but also vernacular houses using brick or stone in northern Vietnam and South Sumatra. The argument is framed around a number of key points. First, because Southeast Asia is a recent construct dating back only to 1944–1945, defining frameworks should be flexible. Second, to pursue the Austric-Tai hypothesis about the underlying unity of the three language families—Austronesian, Austroasiatic and Tai-Kadai—research in nonlinguistic domains like architecture is needed. Third, we should be wary of the lingering tendency to prioritise Indianisation as the key integrating motif and conversely to exclude Chinese and especially Western influences as an excrescence. Fourth, in the urban centres new influences may have reshaped indigenous traditions, but these indigenous traditions in turn localised the foreign. And finally, the localisation of once-foreign traditions could be analysed in the future on the basis of materiality, functionality and symbolism. For instance, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philippine house and South Sumatra’s rumah gedung seem similar in being constructed of wood above and stone below. What would the differences be in construction methods, function and symbolism?
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author Zialcita, Fernando N
author_facet Zialcita, Fernando N
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title Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
title_short Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
title_full Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
title_fullStr Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: An Outlier’s Perspective
title_sort revisiting the southeast asian house: an outlier’s perspective
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2021
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/98
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-2438-4_12
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