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What is tropical architecture? Instead of assuming it as a "natural" – asocial, apolitical and ahistorical – entity, this book provides the first thorough account of its formations and transformations historically. A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to eighteenth and early nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on environmental technologies in the tropics such as ventilation and sun-shading were linked to military technologies, medical theories, cultural assumptions, and sanitary practices, and were manifested in building types such as military barracks, hospitals and housing. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarships on postcolonial studies, science studies, and environmental history, Jiat-Hwee Chang argues that tropical architecture was inextricably entangled with the socio-historical constructions of tropical nature and the politics of colonial governance and postcolonial development. Drawing its main case studies from Singapore, these case studies are situated in relation to the production, circulation and reception of the knowledge and practices of tropical architecture across different time-spaces in the larger British colonial networks, from Britain to British India, from the West Indies to West Africa. By bringing to light new historical materials through formidable research and tracing the history of tropical architecture beyond what is widely considered today as its "founding moment" in the mid-twentieth century, this important and original book bears not only upon our understanding of the colonial urban environment but also upon contemporary concerns with sustainable architecture.
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- Author : Jiat-hwee Chang
- Publisher : Routledge
- Genre : Architecture
- Total Pages : 290 pages
- ISBN : 9780415840774
- Release Date : 01 October 2014
- PDF File Size : 8,5 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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