Climate, Colonial Technoscience, and Architectural History: An Interview with Jiat-Hwee Chang

[摘要] Architectural historian Jiat-Hwee Chang teaches at the National University of Singapore and studies climatic design and technoscientific knowledge. In this interview, he discusses the themes and places that have influenced his work — from his early experiences as a student of architecture and how they have animated his book A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature, and Technoscience, of 2016, to his current manuscript Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore, to be published in 2022. In this conversation with Anita Bakshi, Chang reflects on the translation of architectural knowledge into the personal, political, and technical spheres and brings a rich range of knowledge and experience to bear on important current questions of environmental justice, urban inequality, and climate change.

[学科分类] 内科医学