ABSTRACT
This volume contains a collection of articles that productively interpret the architectural spaces of Singapore, while addressing issues of space, historicity, architecture, and textuality. The main underlying assumption is as follows: any site of the architectural is always going to be more than its mere material presence. Accordingly, the articles consider the ways in which the architectural comes to have specific meanings, and must thus go beyond descriptions of its empirical forms. The key intersection would be between space and history. However, while intersections like this cannot be located through empirical study, we do not accept that independent existing theories can be simply applied to the spaces we wish to deal with. If our accounts of Singapore are to be produced through analysis and interpretation we must more than ever think hard about the problems and possibilities of interpretation.
