In this condition, place is experienced beyond merely physical perception, and ʻidentity ʼ and ʻsense of placeʼ is resonated and registered deep into our memory through different means and meanings. I believe, in order to restore our modern city and community within the corridor of critical regionalism, we have to look back again, and learn from the traditional built environment which is capable to integrate both dimensions.
By analyzing the phenomenon of the modern and traditional environment, which I encountered in different polarity of Indonesian mythical traditional environment (Hindu Temple in Java and Bali) and Chinese historical and modern environment (Chinese Garden & Shanghai metropolis), I develop a theoretical proposition which is central to the dichotomy of formal dimension and transcendental dimension2. Does Architecture still matter? Are traditional and vernacular values still important to be explored and can they be embodied into the modern architecture-driven by scientific and technological development-which has occupied modern Asian metropolis following post-colonialism, capitalism and globalization? In this thesis, to re-thinking the meaning and values of traditional and vernacular, I propose phenomenology as point of departure, and mnemonic practice as design methodology.
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