9781315712680 (electronic bk.)

1315712687 (electronic bk.)

9780415840774

0415840775

9780415840781

0415840783

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

The architext series

Machine generated contents note: Tropicality and colonial nature

Colonial technoscientific networks and circulations

Governmentality and colonial power

Plan of the book

pt. I Building Types

1. Emergence of the Tropicalized House: Comfort in the Heteronomous and Heterogeneous Conditions of Colonial Architectural Production

Presentism and historiographical problems

Heteronomy and the dependence on local builders

Heterogeneity and building artifacts

Multicultural influences, comfort and house typologies

2. Engineering Military Barracks: Experimentation, Systematization and Colonial Spaces of Exception

Military barracks as tropicalized "global form"

Royal engineers, constructional training and experimental tradition

prefabricated tropicalized barracks

Barrack synopses, climates and type plans

"Global form" In colonial spaces of exception

intelligible enclave

3. Translating Pavilion Plan Hospitals: Biopolitics, Environmentalism and Ornamental Governmentality

Light, air and coolness: the "new" pavilion plan hospital

Metropolitan origins and technologies of population

Quantification and environmental technologies

"accumulation of neglect" beyond the enclave

Colonial monuments and ornamental governmentality

4. Improving "Native" Housing: Sanitary Order, Improvement Trust and Splintered Colonial Urbanism

Knowing the governed, regulating the environment

Deficient "information order" and belatedness

defining problem

Housing experiments for a variegated "public"

anatomy of a failed case

pt. II Research and Education

5. Constructing a Technoscientific Network: Building Science Research, "Rendering Technical" and the Power-knowledge of Decolonization

missing technoscientific dimensions

colonial research model

Network building and the tropical building division

(Im)mutable mobiles and climatic design

Conflicting interests and the contingent center

6. Teaching Climatic Design: Postcolonial Architectural Education, Scientific Humanism and Tropical Development

new model of architectural education

Decolonization, the RIBA and Commonwealth architecture

Climate and fundamental principles

Pedagogy and curriculum

rise of building science and architectural research

legacies

Conclusion: Tropical Architecture Today

Nature, tropicality and anthropocene

Technoscientific constructions and network building

Power and governmentality.

Architecture, Tropical > British influences.

Architecture and society > Tropics.

Architecture and society > Singapore.