Genealogy of tropical architecture :

Chang, Jiat-Hwee

Genealogy of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience Jiat-Hwee Chang - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016. - xxvii, 290 p. - Architext series .

Part 1. BUILDING TYPES -- 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. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION -- 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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