Affiliation:
1. the University of Essex
Abstract
This essay revisits Rem Koolhaas’s classic meditation on Singapore’s
natural and built environment in the post-independence era. Building
on Koolhaas’s provocative depiction of Singapore as an architectural
and environmental tabula rasa, it delves deeper into the twentiethcentury
modernist conditions which produced the post-independence
city state’s decontextualized urban landscape. Singapore’s city-making
state policies have resulted from more than an official ideology of
pragmatism; rather, they contain within them an official poetics with
which independent creatives in the city must contend and negotiate.
An analysis of these poetics, embodied in Singapore’s official image of
itself, reveals a pervasive preoccupation with ‘the global’ and a wilful
desire to liberate Singapore from the constraints of history through
creative urban destruction.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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