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No Boundaries - The Lien Villa Collective (Hardcover): Jiat-hwee Chang No Boundaries - The Lien Villa Collective (Hardcover)
Jiat-hwee Chang; Edited by Patrick Bingham-Hall; Illustrated by Patrick Bingham-Hall
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture - Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (Paperback): Jiat-hwee Chang A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture - Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (Paperback)
Jiat-hwee Chang
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

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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. "

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture - Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (Hardcover): Jiat-hwee Chang A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture - Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (Hardcover)
Jiat-hwee Chang
R5,354 Discovery Miles 53 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. "

Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture - Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power (Paperback): Jiat-hwee Chang,... Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture - Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power (Paperback)
Jiat-hwee Chang, Imran Bin Tajudeen
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. The book transforms our understandings of the region's modern architecture by moving beyond a consideration of architecture as an aesthetic artifact and instead examining its entanglement with different dynamics of power.

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