ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the case of postcolonial Indonesia, the issue is posed differently. The "Indonesia" of the Institute of Technology at Bandung was constructed upon a peculiar sense of temporality, a sense of time that considered its colonial "origins" an irrelevant framework. The Rectorate tower, perhaps the most important and authoritative building of the campus, is thus made up from the house plan of the Javanese nobility. Architectural regionalism was largely a movement intended to give a local inflection to modernism by advocating sensitivity to the indigenous climate and local materials. The regional cultures of the Third World, among others, have been conceived as "raw" materials for an otherwise sensitive architectural experiment to overcome the supposedly homogenizing forces of capitalism. The capacity of the architecture to encourage sensitivity towards "tradition" became crucial to the New Order's pursuit of its own traditionality.
