Contact
Email:
jiathwee@gmail.com
Jiat-Hwee Chang (PhD, UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (2016), which is awarded an International Planning History Society Book Prize 2018, and shortlisted for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize 2017. He is also co-editor (with Imran Tajudeen) of Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions in Translation, Epistemology and Power (2019) and (with William S. W. Lim) Non West Modernist Past (2011). Jiat-Hwee was recently a Manton Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Fall 2019, and a Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017-19. His interdisciplinary research has been funded by institutions in North America, Australia, Britain, Qatar, Cyprus, and Singapore. At the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Jiat-Hwee will be researching the socio-cultural histories and techno-politics of air-conditioning and climate change in urban Asia.
RCC Research Project: (Trans)forming the Air-conditioning Complexes: Climate Control, Built Environment and Society in Singapore and Doha
Selected Publications:
- A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience. London: Routledge, 2016.
- "Race and Tropical Architecture: The Climate of Decolonization and Malayanization." In Race and Modern Architecture, edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, and Mabel O. Wilson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming.
- "Thermal Comfort and Climatic Design in the Tropics: An Historical Critique." The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 8 (2016): 1171-202.
- with Tim Winter. "Thermal Modernity and Architecture." The Journal of Architecture 20, no. 1 (2015): 92-121.
- with Imran Tajudeen, eds. Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions in Translation, Epistemology and Power. Singapore: NUS Press, 2019.
- with Lim, William S. W., eds. Non West Modernist Past: On Architecture and Modernities. Singapore: World Scientific, 2011.