Architectural Humanities in Progress

Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent Canadian scholar in Toronto Ontario Canada.
Bagoes earned his Doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Aachen University of Technology in 1990. Germany. He was a Postdoctoral fellow for architecture at the East-West Centre, Honolulu Hawaii, and Fulbright scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, U.S.A. The area of specialization of his teaching and research experience is focused on history, theory, and design of urbanism of various cultures and traditions in Southeast Asia and North America. He was a senior lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology (1981-3, 1993-2002), and visiting research associate at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto Canada (2003-5). He was an associate professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2010 -2013).
Most recent scholarly books by Bagoes Wiryomartono include Traditions and Transformations of Habitation in Indonesia Power, Architecture, and Urbanism (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020), Urbanism; Livability and Sustainability (Singapore: Palgrave, 2019), Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality, Studies on the arts, urbanism, polity, and society (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: home, form, and culture in Indonesia (New York-Berlin-Singapore: Springer Business Media 2014). He published his research in various Scopus journals on history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and culture in Southeast Asia as well as philosophical studies within the phenomenological movement.