Jiat-Hwee Chang, A Geneaology of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience

Autor: Nys-Ketels, Simon De
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Popis: For a long time architectural history has been monopolized by the “problem of the predominantly Western architectural canon.” Recently, however, architectural historians have not only started to look beyond the classical canon, uncovering or reassessing long-undervalued buildings and geographies, but have also begun questioning canonical thinking altogether. The well-trodden path of the “live-and-work” narrative is being abandoned to make way for a more fine-grained understanding of how (besi...
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