ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe - n°17/2020
Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone - part 1
This thematic section of ABE Journal explores the wide-ranging socio-environmental implications of comfort for architectural history. Read More
The contributions over this and the next issue complicate and expand upon our understanding of comfort. Each essay unpacks how comfort was situated and assembled in the built environment of different temporalities and geographies, beyond the taken-for-granted immediacy of the present and the discursive familiarity of temperate European and North American contexts.
Drawing from the cognate fields of scholarship in, among others, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Sociology of Practice, the contributions show how, during the past two centuries, comfort and the built environment were historically entangled with (settler) colonialism and
decolonization, and the various (dis)enchantments of modernities and modernization in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and West Africa. By understanding comfort in relation to these cross-cultural and cross-climatic encounters, these contributions have far-reaching implications for comprehending our shifting and situated relationships with not just built environmental transformations but also planetary climate change.
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- Publisher
- InVisu
- Editorial coordination by
- Jiat-Hwee Chang, Daniel J. Ryan,
- Journal
- ABE Journal
- Language
- French
- Publisher Category
- Applied Sciences > Architecture and Civil Engineering
- BISAC Subject Heading
- ARC000000 ARCHITECTURE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- T Technology, engineering, agriculture
- Onix Audience Codes
- 01 General / trade
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3801 OUVRAGES DE DOCUMENTATION
- Title First Published
- 01 January 2020
- Type of Work
- Journal Issue
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 01 January 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9791097315184
- Extent
- Absolute page count : 276
- Code
- 103909
- Dimensions
- 17 x 23.5 cm
- List Price
- 51.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Dossier : Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone - part 1
Editorial, Jiat-Hwee Chang & Daniel J. Ryan
Cathy Keys, Shifting Priorities of Shade and Northern Australian Architecture: Colonial Settlement prior to the 1920s
Natalia Solano-Meza, Aesthetics of Comfort: A Third Moment in Costa Rican Histories of Tropical Architecture
Dustin Valen, Imperial Atmospheres: Race and Climate Control on the Niger
Sascha Roesler & Madlen Kobi, Urban Climate Indoors: Rethinking Heating Infrastructure in China's Non-Heating Zone
Varia
Jasper Ludewig, Mapoon Mission Station and the Privatization of Public
Violence: Transnational Missionary Architecture on Queensland’s Late-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Frontier
Debate
Hannah le Roux, Comfort, Violence, Care: Decolonizing Tropical Architecture at Blida, 1956
Documents / sources
Monika Motylinska, A Cross Section of Colonial Technology? Zooming in and Zooming out on a Photograph of a 1930s German Trade Fair
Monika Motylinska, Kolonialtechnik im Querschnitt ? Ein Foto einer deutschen Messe aus den 1930er Jahren — zwischen Nah- und Weitblick
Dissertation abstracts
Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961
Reviews
Luce Beeckmans, A Tale of Two Twin Houses. A review of Mirjana Lozanovska, Migrant Housing. Architecture, Dwelling, Migration
Johan Lagae, Raphaèle Billé, Louise Curtis (eds.), Moderne Maharajah. Un mécène des années 1930
Sam Grinsell, Peter H. Christensen, Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure
Christopher Cowell, Cole Roskam, Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937
David Vanderburgh, Yasir Sakr, The Subversive Utopia: Louis Kahn and the Question of the National Jewish Style in Jerusalem
Stephanie Van de Voorde, Hélène Vacher, Valérie Balthazard, Karine Thilleul (eds.), Des maisons métalliques pour l’Afrique. La maison tropicale de Jean Prouvé