Chang, Jiat-Hwee <br/><br/>
Genealogy of tropical architecture :   colonial networks, nature and technoscience 
Jiat-Hwee Chang 
 - Abingdon, Oxon :  Routledge,  2016. 
 - xxvii, 290 p. 
 - Architext series .
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415840781 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AR<br/>Architecture, Tropical --History<br/>Architecture, Tropical<br/>Architecture and society
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.103  / CHA-G