Why is the NMA a postmodern building? What are its key attributes?
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Please write 200 words for each questions.
Q1. [Building] Why is the NMA a postmodern building? What are its key attributes?
Q2. [Building] The Hiroshima Park ends a controversial history of Japan’s involvement in the Pacific War. Yet it also turns the tables on war and peace and of victim and oppressor. What are your views on this subject? Discuss Kenzo Tange’s design for the memorial museum.
Q3. [Movement] What is Orientalism? How does it affect the planning of colonial cities?
Q4. [Architect] Bawa has been described as indigenising modernist programs. How do you see his work? Discuss using an institutional building.
Q5. [Movement]Identify three features, how is Asian modernism different from modern colonial architecture in Asia?
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