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 IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface & AcknowledgmentForeword, 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 HistoriesPart 1, Flows: Labour, Expertise and Vision1. 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 Commodities4. 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 Materiality8. 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 Memory12. 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)ReferencesIndex

In a space saturated by literature on formal politics and identity contests, this refreshing book documents the architectural implications of the complex flows and networks that structured the colonial world.