This paper centers the concept of time and its significance in understanding culture, with a specific focus on Balinese architecture. Here, time is explored through its evolving definition within...Show moreThis paper centers the concept of time and its significance in understanding culture, with a specific focus on Balinese architecture. Here, time is explored through its evolving definition within the Western architecture history where it is persistently conceived as an anthropogenic progress measurement also arguing its homogeneity. The concept of modernity is a common rhetoric in architectural time perception, where it places cultures on comparative ends in determining which has caught up to the modernist trend and which is left to be eternally-traditional. Firstly the paper explores a past colonial exhibition as an exemplifier of a linear time perception in the sense that Western architecture discourse has created a hegemonic interpretive methodology in representing non-Western cultures. The paper aims to decenter the frequently used linear time model and introduce alternative time structures using Balinese theories on time, and time perception within architecture. Overall, this paper provides a comprehensive look at the complexity of Balinese temporal values through architecture and tradition.Show less
