Architecture Asia: Cultural Identity and Social Responsibility

- This issue features three essays and eleven projects that discuss how cultural identity and social responsibility can be embodied within architecture and space design. - The three essays, separately, introduce the social situations in Australia, Malaysia, and India, and the projects in the issue highlight works, such as a community center, nursery, hostel block, and cultural museum, and reveal how these buildings forge cultural identity and extend or social responsibility. Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum, not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global perspective. This issue focuses on how cultural identity and social responsibility can be embodied within architecture and space design, and features three essays and eleven projects that elaborate on this topic. Each essay discusses the social situation in Australia, Malaysia, and India, respectively, as the eleven projects, accompanied with full-color photos and text descriptions, highlight architectural works that include a community center, nursery, hostel block, and cultural museum, among others, to reveal how through these buildings cultural identity is strengthened, or social responsibility is extended.