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The History of Tropical Architecture and Urbanism

This PhD opportunity focuses on the history and theory of tropical built environment in any (sub)tropical geographical area worldwide, of any historical period in the 19th and 20th centuries. You might understand “tropical architecture” as “a form of critical regionalism” in response to climatic conditions of the non-Western world (Le Roux, 2003), a “power-knowledge configuration” inextricably linked to colonial power relations (Chang & King, 2011), a new architectural language free from “the ghost of the Northern box aesthetics” (Tay, 1997), …

Study level
PhD
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
School
School of Architecture and Built Environment

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