Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific

Amanda Achmadi is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Paul Walker is Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Soon-Tzu Speechley is a Research Fellow in Architectural History also at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface & Acknowledgment
Foreword, Tim Winter (Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)

Introduction: Tracing Encounters and Exchanges in Colonial Asia Pacific: Towards a New Geography of Architectural Histories

Part 1, Flows: Labour, Expertise and Vision
1. Asia Pacific Encounters: On the Trail of Colonial Shipping Networks - Amanda Achmadi & Paul Walker (both University of Melbourne, Australia)
2. Infrastructure Migration: The Construction of Labour Mobility in the East Coast of Sumatra - Robin Hartanto Honggare (Columbia University, United States of America)
3. Building Networks: Professional Mobility and the Migration of Architects in the Imperial World - Soon-Tzu Speechley & Julie Willis (both University of Melbourne, Australia)

Part 2: Enterprises and Commodities
4. Biscuits and Buildings: The Colonial Enterprise of Swallow and Ariell - Paul Walker & Karen Burns (both University of Melbourne, Australia)
5. “Lonely Dots”: John Thomas Arundel and the Architecture of Greater British Enterprise in the Pacific - Jasper Ludewig (University of Newcastle, Australia)
6. A Tale of Sugar Factories in Colonial Java: Transformation of Transnational Companies - Erika Yuni Astuti, Rafael Andrean Sepnadi, Pratomo Aji Krisnugrahanto (all Institute Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia), & Amanda Achmadi (University of Melbourne, Australia)
7. Constructions on the Commercial Network of a British Colonial Firm: Branch Buildings of Jardine Matheson & Co. in Nineteenth-Century East Asia - Susumu Mizuta (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Part 3, Mobilities: Industrial Infrastructure, Craftmanship, and Materiality
8. Whaling in the Tasman World - Stuart King (University of Melbourne, Australia) & Andrew Leach (University of Sydney, Australia)
9. Technology Spillover in Imperial Times: Cantonese Craftsmen and Concrete Coastal Fortifications In Hong Kong and Guangzhou, 1876-1882 - Yichuan Chen (Bartlett School of Architecture, UK)
10. Imprints of the Basel Mission Industries on Indian Ocean Architectures - Arijit Chatterjee (Bengal Institute and CEPT University, India) & Asha Sumra (Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark)
11. A “Spiritual Home” Far away from Home: The Chinese Temples in Colonial Medan, Dutch East Indies - Yinrui Xie (University of Lincoln, UK) & Amanda Achmadi (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Part 4: Heritage and Historical Memory
12. The Absent Referent of Exchange in South and Southeast Asian Trade: The Role of Iranian Trade Networks in Facilitating Colonial Commodities in the Nineteenth Century - Ali Rad Yousefnia (University of Queensland, Australia)
13. Analysing Nineteenth-Century Military Building Typologies: An Australian Perspective - Noni Boyd & Jean Rice (both independent scholars, Australia)
14. Unlocking Maps, Locating Forms: Historical Maps as Windows onto Past Industry, Agriculture, and Trade in the Asia Pacific - Jane M. Jacobs (Yale-NUS College, Singapore) & Victoria Marshall (National University of Singapore)

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