ABSTRACT
When discussing modernism in the architecture of East and Southeast Asia, it is customary to divide the topic into two regional components. One, normally referred to as East Asia, is comprised of China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and is collected together generally under the auspices of a shared Confucian culture. The other, referred to as Southeast Asia, now composed of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, is less culturally coherent and made up of different ethnic groups, languages, religions, and social identities.
