A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture

This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations and will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners.

Jiat-Hwee Chang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

Introduction: Framing Tropical Architecture Part 1 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 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