Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional
Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian
phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for
understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global
perspective. This issue reveals the development of Thailand contemporary
architecture, and features five essays and twelve projects that
elaborate this perspective. The five essays elaborate the contemporary
architecture of Thailand in Southeast Asia, and how Thailand
architecture was influenced by western architectural theories and
finally found a good balance between modernization and localization. The
twelve projects, accompanied with full-color photos and text
descriptions, concentrate on the exploration of modernity, regionalism
and futurism in Thai architecture from 1940 to 1980, and highlight
architectural works that reflect on practical industrial buildings,
demonstrate the exploration of Thai contemporary architecture from form,
space and architecture to the complex disciplines of ecology,
humanities, society and industry.