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A genealogy of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience / Jiat-Hwee Chang.

Author(s): Chang, Jiat-Hwee

A genealogy of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience / Jiat-Hwee Chang.
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Main Title
A genealogy of tropical architecture : colonial networks, nature and technoscience
Author(s)
Chang, Jiat-Hwee
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Collation
xxviii, 290 p.
25 cm.
Series Title
Architext series
ISBN
9780415840781
Dewey Class
720
Contents
Introduction: Framing Tropical Architecture -- Part I. 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 II. 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.
Language
English
Subject
Architecture, Tropical -- English influences.
Architecture and society -- Tropics.
BRN
7209
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