A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies, medical theories and sanitary practices, and were manifested in colonial building types such as military barracks, hospitals and housing. It also explores the various ways these colonial knowledge and practices shaped post-war techno scientific research and education in climatic design and...
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and...
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies, medical theories and sanitary practices, and were manifested in colonial building types such as military barracks, hospitals and housing. It also explores the various ways these colonial knowledge and practices shaped post-war techno scientific research and education in...
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectu...
Juliana Maxim s book is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism. It examines the mechanisms through which modern Soviet architecture was invested with political meaning and, in reverse, how specific architectural solutions came to define city life and the socialist experience.
Each of the book s three parts spans the historical development of one key aspect of Romania s architectural culture during this period:
the planning and construction of housing districts in Bucharest
the creation and dissemination of a photographic...
Juliana Maxim s book is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism. It examines the mechanisms through which modern Sovi...
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts - globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world.
In this book Anthony King brings together key essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored...
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts - globalisati...
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world.
In this book Anthony King brings together key essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored historical and...
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts globalisation...
The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.
Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzik and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of...
The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia....
