Current 6: Building BLOCS

THEMES & ISSUES

- Architecture and alliances (soviet, marxist, islamist, colonial, modernity, neoliberal)

- elements of building.
(bricks, foundations, bamboo)

- labour of building

- Monuments
(Shaheed Minar, Bangladesh Parliament building, new mosques)

- Neoliberal instant architecture (Dubai, Qatam Singapore, Shanghai)

- City Planning

- Post-Utopia?

- Remants of EMPIREs and Dynasty (Mughal, Han, Gupta)

- Asian Economic BLOCS (ASEAN, G20)