Essential Reading?
The Institut für Tropenbau's Publications as Primers for the Design-Build Movement
Rachel Lee (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
Monika Motylińska (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS))
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Abstract
The Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Building in the Tropics, IFT), founded by the German architect Georg Lippsmeier in 1969, impacted architectural production in diverse geographies and cultural contexts until the late 20th century. As the research arm of the international architectural practice Lippsmeier+Partner (L+P), which focused on building in the “Global South,” IFT contributed to the growing discourse on so-called “tropical architecture,” (King and Chang, 2016; le Roux, 2003) and later on “appropriate technologies.” The interest was manifested most strongly through IFT’s publications. Beginning with Tropenbau = Building in the Tropics (1969), IFT published a series of books, reports, brochures, and newsletters that were circulated within “development” oriented architectural circles. Two editions of Tropenbau (1969 and 1980; Figure 1a-b) were stocked in libraries around the world.1 IFT’s research and publication activities were inseparably intertwined with Lippsmeier’s private architectural practice. [...]
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