[Extract …] As a historian of modernism, I think we have still to account for the fact that modernity and modernization were born in the crucible of colonization; we have, in other words, to unthink modernism as Eurocentrism, we have to re-think it as a global heritage. As architects, as we go looking for work in Asia, I think we must strive to be aware of the manner in which the work we do at home is always also inevitably connected to the work we seek abroad, both through the wormholes of history, as also the geopolitics of today.