Abstract
This essay will exam the Modern Movement in Cambodia through architecture, known as New Khmer Architecture, from 1953 to 1970, that has distinct continuum characteristics from vernacular architecture, like other Modern Movement architecture in Southeast Asia, because of socio-political movements and cultural engagement.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Southeast Asian architecture, Modern urban planning, Tropical architecture, Cambodian modern architecture, New Khmer Architecture.

Issue 57
Year 2017
Pages 12-19
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/57.A.UHKJCPEU