ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the critical literature on Israeli colonial planning and architecture that considers its effect within Israel and occupied territories. This planning and architectural culture coalesced into wider European Imperial network of knowledge production. The chapter then focuses on research about planning and architecture of settlers communities that particularly considers relations between colonizer and colonized, exclusively in the conventional historical context of core relations. Solel Boneh, an Israeli construction and civil engineering company, is one prominent example of a company whose involvement in Africa as well as in Iran was supported by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in general and by Golda Meir in particular. It is important to contextualize tropical architecture within a wider milieu of practices and knowledge production, such as tropical medicine, which constructed 'the Tropics' in the eyes of Europeans. The tropical architecture genealogy is a historical product founded on technoscientific perceptions that constructed the interrelations between tropical nature and climate.
