Non ARKARAPRASERTKUL

Non ARKARAPRASERTKUL
Non Arkaraprasertkul (นน อัครประเสริฐกุล)
nonharvard@gmail.com
Stay at HYI: Sep 2008—Dec 2011

Non Arkaraprasertkul has been appointed Distinguished (Visiting) Gibbons Professor of Architecture at the University of South Florida (USF) for the spring semester of 2013 to co-teach a travel urban design studio and co-direct an urban design project with Professor Jan Wampler, USF Markborough Endowed Professor and Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

First of its kind, the goal of the studio is to design a city, a community, an urban spatiality, on two water reservoirs in the southeast of Thailand near the Gulf of Thailand in Rayong Province. With the firm belief of both professors that architecture and anthropology are unique fields of study with synergetic potential, this studio is directed toward the understanding of the local lifestyle and the vision for the future. Working closely with the local planners, officials, and local residents, the studio hopes to present the design projects by the beginning of June. The result will be published in a book form.

Recent Publications

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Review Article: In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis by Li Zhang.” Student Anthropologist 3, no.1 (2012): 101-04.

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. "Book Review: Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity." Urban Studies 49, no. 16 (December 1, 2012 ): 3705-07.

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. 2012. “Urbanization and Housing: Socio-Spatial Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai.” In Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, edited by Gregory Bracken. IIAS Series, pp. 139-64, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. 2012. “Moral Global Storytelling: Reflections on Place and Space in Shanghai's Urban Neighborhoods.” Storytelling, Self, and Society 8, no. 3: 167-179.

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. 2012. Review of In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. Li Zhang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.  2010. 248 pp. Student Anthropologist 3, no. 1: 101-104.

Arkaraprasertkul, Non & Jacob Dreyer. “Space of Inertia: Shanghai’s Deep Structure.” You Are Here: Journal of Creative Geography 14: 69-86

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Dynamic Soi: Neighborhoods and Urban Life in the City of Bangkok.” Rian Thai: International Journal of Thai Studies 3: 155-184 (2010)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Leaping Beyond Nostalgia: Shanghai’s Urban Housing Ethnography.” The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter. Leiden/Amsterdam, the Netherland 55 (Autumn/Winter): 27-28

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Power, Politics, and the Making of Shanghai.” Journal of Planning History 9(4) 232-259 (2010); also pre-published on September 14, 2010. SAGE OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1177/1538513210382384

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Crypto-Urbanism: Retrofitting Tokyo.” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 3(2): 129-130 (2010)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Beyond Preservation: Rebuilding Old Shanghai” The Exposition Magazine of the University of Oxford. 3 (Hilary Issue): 10-18 (2010)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Toward Shanghai’s Urban Housing: Re-Defining Shanghai’s Lilong.” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 2(1): 11–29 (2009) **Selected as one of the Best 100 Papers on improving cities and the quality of urban life by Routledge for World Habitat Day 2010 (see details: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/world-habitat-day.pdf)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag. 2009

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “On Frederic Jameson: Marxism, Postmodernism and Architecture.” Architectural Theory Review. 14(1): 79-94 (2009)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. & Reilly Rabitaille. “Difference, Originality, Plagiarism: Building Nine and Panabhandhu School.” Thresholds: Journal of Architecture, Art and Media Culture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 35: 8-15 (2009)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Towards Modern Urban Design: Louis Kahn’s Central Philadelphia Plan.” Journal of Urban Design 13 (2): 177-195 (2008)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Politicization and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urban Form.” Footprints: Journal of Delft’s School of Design 2: 43-52 (2008)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “Visualizing Shanghai: The Ascendancy of the Skylines.” East Asian Studies Journal, Thammasat University’s Institute of East Asian Studies 12 (2): 1-39 (2008)

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “A Critical Appearance of Modernism: Building Nine of Panabhandhu School,” Journal of South East Asian Architecture: JSEAA, The National University of Singapore 9 (1): 13-28 (2006)