Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific

Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world's most dispersed and culturally diverse region. A wide-ranging collection of case studies uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, and indentured labour. From Iran to Tasmania, Japan to Java, and Imperial China to the Pacific Islands, the chapters reveal how remnants of colonial trade and industry shed light on the many multi-faceted mobilities of the imperial age, and their enduring legacy in the postcolonial built environments of Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond. The chapters also reveal deep strands of cultural influences and material imprints long neglected by national histories of architecture, and showcase new methodologies to analyse the interconnectivities and bordering practices which are shaping our experiences of the 21st century. With almost every chapter arising from new archival sources, this richly interdisciplinary volume brings together the work of architectural historians, geographers and heritage practitioners to provide a new understanding of the rich and contested history of this region.

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) References Index