Jiat-Hwee Chang

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317495673
• Artikelnr.: 44979923

Autorenporträt

Jiat-Hwee Chang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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