Non Arkaraprasertkul

Non Arkaraprasertkul is a Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, Affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Nottingham. He also taught urban design at the Massachusetts MIT where he was J. William Fulbright and the Institute of International Education (IIE) Scholar, Rockefeller’s Fellow, C.V.Starr Foundation Fellow, and Asian Cultural Council Fellow in History Theory Criticism of Architecture. Arkaraprasertkul's research is based in critical theory and focuses on urban form and social restructuring and planning history and theory with special focus on East Asia’s emerging mega cities. He is the author of the emerging key concepts in cultural and urban studies: “Politics of Built Form” and “Soft Cultural Infrastructure.” His recent research project, “Resilient Lilong: An Ethnography of Shanghai’s Urban Housing,” is funded by Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship and the China Research Award of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford University. He is also interested in Modern Chinese history and society, anthropology of modern Chinese society; urbanism and housing, built forms and their cultural construction, East-West Asian cities; urban morphology & theories, cultural infrastructure of developing countries, modern Chinese history (politics of economics of modern China), visualizing cultures; urbanization in developing regions, low-income housing and urbanism, and sexuality and modern urbanism. He has written a numerous number of academic and journalistic articles. He is the author of Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form (VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2009). He has published articles on urbanism studies, cultural studies, history and theory of architecture, and politics. Among his selected articles are: “Shanghai Lilong: Urbanism of Modern Urban Housing” (Journal of Urbanism, 2009), “On Frederic Jameson: Marxism, Postmodernism and Architecture” (Architecture Theory Review, 2009), “Difference, Originality, Plagiarism: Building Nine and Panabhandhu School” (Thresholds, 2009) , “Love Hotel of Japan” (The Oxonian Review, 2009), “Towards Modern Urban Design: Louis Kahn’s Central Philadelphia Plan” (Journal of Urban Design, 2008), “Politicization and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urban Form” (Footprints, 2008), “Visualizing Shanghai: The Ascendancy of the Skylines” (East Asian Studies Journal, 2008), “A Critical Appearance of Modernism: Building Nine of Panabhandhu School” (Journal of South East Asian Architecture, 2006).

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