ABSTRACT
In Part I of the book, we have explored the histories of four building types in the genealogy of tropical architecture from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. These histories took place before the institutionalization of tropical architecture in the mid-twentieth century. In the second part of the book, we continue chronologically from where we left off in the 1940s and explore the histories of tropical architecture in the mid-twentieth century. As we are dealing with tropical architecture during and after its institutionalization in this part, we are no longer attending to relatively esoteric colonial knowledges and practices of building in the tropics. Instead we are encountering tropical architecture from a period that has been fairly extensively covered by a body of new scholarship. Emerging in the past decade or so, this body of scholarship goes beyond the established scholarship on Brazilian tropical architecture and Le Corbusier’s work in India (Figure 5.1) to shed new light on previously unknown or little-known buildings and architects associated with modern tropical architecture.1
