BIAS

With the world’s shift to a global media society, architecture has been radically transformed into a system of signs and symbols that are more or less independent of social location. Whether or not architecture should embrace or resist this transformation has been the defining debate in contemporary architecture for decades.

Published by the Association of Siamese Architects. under royal patronage, this catalog was produced for the Bangkok International Architecture Symposium (BIAS) in March 1995 under the theme Architecture & Media Society: Concept to Process. It invited three renowned architects and critics – Arata Isozaki, Peter Eisenman, and Jeffrey Kipnis, to present an architectural design that reflects this notion.