[PDF] Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities) by Sambit Datta; David Beynon at Arts-Photography

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From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology; design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective; historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western; industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history; reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here; contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic; all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.