Nationalism and urban design: the parliament houses of Canberra and Bangkok

Sidh Sintusingha and Ross King

Journal of Urban Design, 2021, vol. 26, issue 4, 496-513

Abstract: Both Canberra and Bangkok have in recent times invoked design competitions to initiate new Parliament buildings. The Canberra case was in a tradition of open international competition, that of Bangkok limited to Thai architects, with both bringing ‘the nation’ into deliberation. In each, the design needed to negotiate an established urban landscape: in Canberra an urban design of axial set-pieces, formal and geometric, of largely US derivation; in Bangkok, a less ordered urban landscape, organically evolved over centuries. The resulting urban design complexes raise questions of how the idea of the nation is to be represented in urban space.

Date: 2021
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