Asian Architecture in The New Millennium - A Postmodern Imagery
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This lecture was first delivered at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia (05-2003). Following this delivery, the text and project illustrations are constantly being amended, expanded and updated. The lecture was subsequently delivered at:
1. Thammasat University at Rangsit Campus, Bangkok, Thailand, (08-2003)
2. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (09-2003)
3. Goethe Institute Hanoi and The University for Civil Engineering, Hanoi, Vietnam (12-2003)
4. AESA Awards Presentation, Pune, India (01-2004)
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