For years, Widodo has been promoting the work of various efforts in Asia—such as the mASEANa (modern ASEAN architecture) Project, founded in 2015—which are helping to rewrite history by reappraising Southeast Asian architectural modernism in particular. Fletcher’s book focuses on European architecture from the Romanesque to the Renaissance, but also mentions the buildings of the British colonies and the United States as “historical styles.” The architecture of India, China, and Japan, on the other hand, is classified as “non-historical styles.” He visualized this limited and strongly colonialist perspective in 1905 with a family tree of architecture, where the superior European building culture is located in the lush treetop, while the architectures of the rest of the world are depicted on dead side shoots (see Johannes Widodo’s article in this issue).
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