TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chang, Jiat-Hwee
TI  - Genealogy of tropical architecture : : colonial networks, nature and technoscience
SN  - 9780415840781
U1  - 720.103 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - AR
KW  - Architecture, Tropical
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture and society
N1  - 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
ER  -