Work
Orientalism
Explore in the Atlas →Said's analysis of how the West produced 'the Orient' as an imaginative geography of difference and domination grounds postcolonial critiques of how architecture and space are represented, exoticised and ruled.
Power Memory Fantasy
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Imaginative Geographies
- articulates Postcolonial Theory
Referenced by
- Edward W. Said authored
Sources
- Edward W. Said. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Orientalism." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/orientalism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.