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Università della Svizzera italiana

Contours of an urban architectural anthropology : built environment, climate control and socio‐material practices in winter in Chongqing (south‐west China)

Kobi, Madlen

In: Social anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, 2019, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 17 p

The materiality of and daily life in urban high‐rise buildings has barely been researched, especially when compared to the rich anthropological and architectural studies that exist on rural architecture. This article engages with indoor climate control in an urbanising environment. It considers urban architecture as a social field characterised by the interaction of diverse actors such as...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Warm bodies in the Chinese borderlands : architecture, thermal infrastructure, and territorialization in the arid continental climate of Ürümchi, Xinjiang

Kobi, Madlen

In: Eurasian geography and economics, 2020, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 77-99

Architectural research often considers buildings and settlement practices as local material adaptations to climate, particularly when it comes to the analysis of architecture in rural and small-scale settlements. Based on ethnographic data from the rapidly urbanizing oasis metropolis Ürümchi in China’s northwestern borderlands, this paper goes beyond such a localized view of climate ...

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