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Looking for a sustainable architectural style in Phnom Penh

Looking for a sustainable architectural style in Phnom Penh. Thomas Kolnberger Junior researcher, MA (University of Vienna), PhD-cand. University of Luxembourg FLSHASE Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education)

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Looking for a sustainable architectural style in Phnom Penh

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  1. Lookingfor a sustainablearchitectural style in Phnom Penh Thomas Kolnberger Junior researcher, MA (University of Vienna), PhD-cand. University of Luxembourg FLSHASEFaculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education) Research Unit IPSEIdentités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espace Route de Diekirch L-7220 Walferdange, Luxembourg thomas.kolnberger@uni.lu

  2. … are the Khmer / Cambodians only `copyists´: `cut & paste only?´ “mixed style of Chinese, Japanese, and of European forms” and `copyists of the European´ - Francois Baudoin, The Resident Superior of the Camb. Protectorate, (1920s) “a certain degeneration, a beginning of decadence´ in `the motifs of the most recent art´: `the influence of the West, and models of deplorable taste introduced by cinema, illustrated magazines, and trinkets in the market, had made themselves felt amongst artisans used to transmitting from father to son, by tradition, ancestral motifs in which the art of Angkor was reflected´.” - Henri Marchal "Curator of Angkor" / EFEO (1910) “It has reached the point where, in thirty or so years, those art historians who succeed us, will be able to add to our two paragraphs, only a third entitled `The Disappearance of Cambodian Art under Foreign Influence´” – Greorge Groslier, Ecole des Arts cambodgiens, Musée Albert Sarraut, Direction des Arts cambodgiens (1930)

  3. Reality of City life andUrbanarchitecture The objective reality of history: Some snapshots and streetscapes in Phnom Penh 2009

  4. Layers of History Layers of Change = Layers of different Needs?

  5. … after the Independence: H.R.H. Sihanouk & Sangkum Riastr Reyum (another `international´style in Cambodia after Indian, Chinese or French Colonial style as adaption?)

  6. … new face(s) of buildings: new facades (esthetic) or new veneers (technical)?

  7. uncontrolled growth and change or adaption to different circumstances and needs?

  8. Social housing as `stockpiling´ of people…?

  9. stockpiling of people II: the real estate market and foreign investment? (units in co-owned buildings above the ground floor for foreigners)

  10. Villa-style stockpiled with a `Chinese Shophouse´…

  11. retro-looks… but where to?

  12. … the metamorphosis of style and functional adoptions are thriving…

  13. Why citing `Angkor´???

  14. Urban development of Phnom Penh plan 1866 plan 1867 plan 1914 15th century plan 1926 plan 1928 plan 1968 plan 1920 Source: Phnom Penh Then and Now, Michel Igout - 1993

  15. sleeping position sun North South?

  16. Classification of styles: some suggestions from the real estate market

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