Reconsidering Tropical Architecture and Urbanism
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-40686-5 (ISBN)
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Reconsidering Tropical Architecture and Urbanism explores the complex factors - from climate to colonialism - that have shaped ideas of tropical architecture from the eighteenth century to the present.
While many studies view tropical architecture simply as the development of climatic design strategies and technologies, this book looks deeper, aligning a history of tropical and subtropical architecture with cultural as well as environmental narratives. Themes – ranging from climate, tropical medicine, and health, through to race, identity, whiteness studies, development, decolonization, disaster and resilience – are each examined through a series of insightful case studies spanning diverse geographies including Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Together, they propose the tropical building or city as a cultural artefact, informed and influenced both by climate and by colonial and post-colonial discourses on the tropical imaginary.
Divided into four sections, each introduced by a key cultural or environmental historian, the book presents four overarching themes – Disease, Discomfort, Development, and Disaster – which encapsulate different anxieties surrounding colonisation, acclimatisation, settlement, and decolonisation.
Challenging existing perceptions of tropical architecture and inviting readers to critically reassess established narratives, Reconsidering Tropical Architecture and Urbanism presents an alternative history that exposes the intertwined relationships between tropical architecture, climate, colonialism, settler colonialism, and labour in the global south.
Dr. Deborah van der Plaat is a Senior Research Fellow in Architecture at the University of Queensland (Australia). Her research examines the architecture of nineteenth and twentieth century Australia and its intersection with theories of artistic agency, climate, place, migration and race. Writing histories of Queensland architecture is also a focus within her work. Dr. Vandana Baweja is an associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Her research areas are – global histories of Tropical Architecture and Sustainable Architecture. She is the Co-Editor of Arris: The Journal of The Southeast Chapter of The Society of Architectural Historians. Professor Tom Avermaete is Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on the architecture of the city and the changing roles, approaches and tools of architects and urban designers from a cross-cultural perspective. Avermaete is editor of OASE. Journal of Architecture and member of the advisory board of the Architecture Theory Review and Docomomo Journal.
Introduction: Disease, Discomfort, Development and Disaster: Reconsidering Tropical Architecture and Urbanism, Dr. Deborah van der Plaat (The University of Queensland, Australia), Professor Vandana Baweja, PhD (University of Florida, USA), Professor Tom Avermaete, PhD (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Part 1: DISEASE
Section introduction by Professor Warwick Anderson (The University of Sydney, Australia)
1. Addressing Disease, Development and Culture in The Colonial Urban Kampong: Health, Native Housing and Urban Planning in Semarang, Java, 1900–1930, Dr. Joost Coté (The University of Queensland, Australia)
2. “Crise du logement": Migration and the Architectural Prophylactics of Hygiene and Housing in Postwar Tunisia, Morocco, Professor Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi (Albion College, USA)
3. Medical Infrastructure Histories of Anglophone West Africa, Professor Ola Uduku, PhD (University of Liverpool, UK)
PART 2: DISCOMFORT
Section Introduction by Russell McGregor (James Cook University, Australia)
4. Race and the Tropical Home: The houses of Dr. and Mrs. Franzier J. Payton (1936) and Isaac Edmands (1936), Miami, Professor Vandana Baweja, PhD (University of Florida, USA)
5. The ABC Hotels in the former Belgian Congo: An Evolution of The Tropical Bungalow, Dalia Perziani (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
6. U.S. Domesticated Tropics: Architectural Visions and Comfort in Southern California, Hawai’i and Florida, Dr. Henry Knight Lozano (University of Exeter, UK)
PART 3: DEVELOPMENT
Section introduction: Professor David Williams, PhD (Queen Mary University, UK)
7. The Synthesis of Tropical Urbanism: Integrating Urban Knowledge in the UN Technical Assistance Programme, Professor Tom Avermaete, PhD (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
8. Architectural Experiments in Remote Self-Help Housing for Aboriginal People in the 1970s, Dr. Tim O’Rourke (The University of Queensland, Australia)
9. Faith by 1978: Architecture, Advocacy and Displacement in Mindanao, Philippines, Will Davis (University of California, USA)
PART 4: DISASTER
Section introduction by Professor Jason von Meding, Phd (University of Florida, USA)
10. Earthquake: The ‘Contact Zone’ of Moroccan Agadir’s Development Aid after the 1960 Earthquake, Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11. Resilience, Psychological Security, and Disaster in Tropical Australia in the Interwar Years, Dr. Deborah van der Plaat (The University of Queensland, Australia)
12. An Alluvial Archipelago: Islands of Forced Labour and Pervasive Disaster in Louisiana’s Delta Country, Emeritus Professor William (Bill) Taylor, PhD (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 87 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-40686-4 / 1350406864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-40686-5 / 9781350406865 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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