Managing Change through Historic Preservation – Conserving Asia’s Modernist Architectural Heritage

“ Today in Macau, at the heart of the Mediterranean of Asia, we affirm Asia as a dynamic source of our identities and recognize the numerous experiences that we share with  the rest of the world. Industrialization, urbanization, westernization, colonization, de­­co­lonization, and nation-building—these phenomena have variously defined Asian mo­dern­ism. Modern Asia has not developed in a vacuum but has evolved through sustained inter­­actions with the West, which has had a constant presence in our collective consciousness.”

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