Archnet-IJAR: Sustainable solutions for Tropical Asian Cities: The nexus between architecture, technology and heritage.

April 23, 2021

Archnet-IJAR: Sustainable solutions for Tropical Asian Cities: The nexus between architecture, technology and heritage.

Special issue planned for June/July 2022 (Volume 16 Issue 2)
Archnet-IJAR Chief Editor: Professor Ashraf M. Salama

Guest editors of this Special Issue
Dr. Keith Kay Hin TAN, Taylor’s University Email: KeithKayHin.Tan@taylors.edu.my
Dr. Johannes Widodo, National University of Singapore, jwidodo@nus.edu.sg
Dr. Camelia Kusumo, Taylor’s University, Cameliamayli.Kusumo@taylors.edu.my

The well-documented shift of the global economy’s centre of gravity from Europe and North America towards the Indo-Pacific region has generated a surge in interest regarding the region’s socio-economic present and its imagined future. Commercial and academic Interest in the region’s cities and built environment has similarly grown, with academic publications about architecture increasingly embracing issues of tropical, warm-climate design. Given the threat of global warming to the future well-being of mankind, the issues of sustainable solutions for tropical Asian cities will have implications not only for Asia, but will also hint at future challenges and solutions affecting many parts of a rapidly warming planet.

Archnet-IJAR has partnered with Taylor’s University for the ThinkSpace Conference 2021. To find out more about this conference please follow this link: https://thinkspace.taylors.edu.my/paper/

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*Only papers that have been submitted to the ThinkSpace Conference for pre-vetting will be considered for publication in this special issue.

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).