Architecting One-ness: Fluid Spaces/Sacred Modernity
Architecting One-ness: Fluid Spaces/Sacred Modernity
Drawing on sustained ethnographic work with architects, clients and residents, this chapter firstly describes the kinds of building techniques used to create the non-binary environmental aesthetics and fluid inside/out spatialities that are the hallmark of Sri Lanka's tropical modernism. Secondly, it explores how people live in and materially negotiate tropical modern architecture, in the process delineating a dominant Sinhala and Buddhist cultural logic to such commonplace experiential and aesthetic domains. The chapter suggests how the affective capacities of tropical modernism participate in the ongoing ethnicization of this environmental architecture that is commonly thought to be quintessentially Sri Lankan. The chapter makes connections between the common domains of experience of tropical modern built space and the affective resonances of nature tourism in Ruhuna National Park delineated in chapter 3. The chapter is concerned particularly with the politics of the experiential.
Keywords: Tropical modernism, architecture, built-space, Sri Lanka, experience, Sinhala-Buddhist, aesthetics
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