Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent scholar in Toronto, Canada. He earned his doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Aachen University of Technology in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow for architecture at the East‐West Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution in the US. His area of specialisation is in the history, theory, and design of urbanisms 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 a visiting research associate at the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto Canada (2003-5). He was then an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2010 -2013). His most recent books include Urbanism, Livability and Sustainability (Palgrave, forthcoming 2019), Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality, Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society (Rowman & Littlefield 2016), and Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form and Culture in Indonesia (Springer 2014). He has published his research in various Scopus journals on the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and culture in Southeast Asia, as well as in philosophical studies within the phenomenological movement.
