Lawrence Chua, Syracuse University - Architecture as Chronopolitical Infrastructure

How space are designed can lead to longer wait times for some.

Lawrence Chua, associate professor of Architectural History at Syracuse University, explores why.

Faculty Bio:

Lawrence Chua is a historian of the modern built environment with an emphasis on the trans-regional histories of Asian architecture and urban cultures. He is the author of Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, published in the University of Hawai’i Press’ Spatial Habitus series in 2021. His current research project, “Untimely Interventions,” investigates the ways modern architecture structured colonial and nationalist perceptions of time and sovereignty in Thail...