亚洲热带建筑

Asian Tropical Architecture

热带建筑和热带性的概念,是在亚洲语境下建筑实践与研究的重要议题。虽然从1980年代起,人们就开始探讨亚洲热带建筑,但热带建筑这个术语仅被看作亚洲景观在其文化和气候背景下形成的一种建筑形象。尽管这些术语在日常生活中看似很常见,并被描绘为热带地区建筑的浪漫形象,本文却通过回顾多种文献材料,试图突出该术语的多样性和复杂性。热带建筑的概念在其普遍含义之外,在后殖民语境中被视为一种同质的西方理念,也被意识形态和权力相关的话语所概念化。本文还简要提及近期谱系学的研究方法,一种福柯式的研究热带概念的方法,作为一种重新思考热带地区建筑的地位和概念的途径。

Tropical architecture and the idea of tropicality are seminal themes of discussion within architectural practice and research in the context of Asia. While discussions began in Asia since the 1980 s, the term tropical architecture is perceived as an architectural image set within the backdrop of the cultural and climatic contexts of the Asian landscapes. While these terms may seem common in its everyday use and portrayed as a romantic image of the architecture in the tropics, this article reviews diverse literature, and highlights the diversity and complexity of the term. Beyond its common use, the notion of tropical architecture is seen as homogenous Western idea within the post-colonial contexts and it is also conceptualised from a discourse related to ideology and power. This article alluded to recent approach on genealogy, a Foucauldian way of examining the notion of tropicality as a way forward to re-think position and conception of the architecture for the tropics.