A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. I

What is tropical architecture? Instead of assuming it as a "natural" – asocial, apolitical and ahistorical – entity, this book provides the first thorough a

The author examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form bu

The tropical region covers a significant proportion of the globe, and yet its architecture receives relatively little outside comment or exposure. Dispersed wid

Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected German