This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations and will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners.
This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations and will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners.
Jiat-Hwee Chang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.
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Introduction: Framing Tropical Architecture Part 1 1. The Emergence of the Tropicalized House: Comfort in the Heteronomous and Heterogeneous Conditions of Colonial Architectural Production 2. Engineering Military Barracks: Experimentation, Systematization and Colonial Spaces of Exception 3. Translating Pavilion Plan Hospitals: Biopolitics, Environmentalism and Ornamental Governmentality 4. Improving "Native" Housing: Sanitary Order, Improvement Trust and Splintered Colonial Urbanism Part 2 5. Constructing Postcolonial Technoscientific Network: Building Science Research, "Rendering Technical" and the Power-knowledge of Decolonization 6. Teaching Climatic Design: Postcolonial Architectural Education, Scientific Humanism and Tropical Development Conclusion: Tropical Architecture Today Bibliography
Introduction: Framing Tropical Architecture Part 1 1. The Emergence of the Tropicalized House: Comfort in the Heteronomous and Heterogeneous Conditions of Colonial Architectural Production 2. Engineering Military Barracks: Experimentation, Systematization and Colonial Spaces of Exception 3. Translating Pavilion Plan Hospitals: Biopolitics, Environmentalism and Ornamental Governmentality 4. Improving "Native" Housing: Sanitary Order, Improvement Trust and Splintered Colonial Urbanism Part 2 5. Constructing Postcolonial Technoscientific Network: Building Science Research, "Rendering Technical" and the Power-knowledge of Decolonization 6. Teaching Climatic Design: Postcolonial Architectural Education, Scientific Humanism and Tropical Development Conclusion: Tropical Architecture Today Bibliography
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