After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Soha Macktoom and Mariam Ahmad - Heatscapes and Evolutionary Habitats

Heatscapes and Evolutionary Habitats

Soha Macktoom and Mariam Ahmad

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Concrete screens filled with blocks to accommodate mechanical cooling indoors. Photo by authors.

After Comfort: A User’s Guide
October 2023










Notes
1

Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 2.

2

Tom Avermaete, "Monuments of Country, Climate and Culture: Michel Écochard and the Design of the Postcolonial Tropolis," docomomo journal 63 (2020): 32-39. See also Hannah Le Roux, "The Networks of Tropical Architecture," Journal of Architecture 8, no. 3 (2003): 337-354.

3

Michel Ecochard, The University of Karachi, manuscript, IFA, fonds Écochard, Centre d’archives d’architecture du XX siècle, (1965).

4

Shabbir Kazmi and Mariam Karrar, “Architecture: Ecochard in Karachi,” Dawn, November 26, 2017. See .

5

Michel Écochard, Gérard Thurnauer, and Pierre Riboulet, Report on the Proposed Plan of the New University of Karachi. Karachi (1954).

6

Tom Avermaete and Michel Écochard. "Crossing Cultures of Urbanism: The Transnational Planning Ventures of Michel Ecochard," Crossing Boundaries, Transcultural Practices in Architecture and Urbanism, OASE 95 (2010): 22-33.

7

Daniel A. Barber, "After Comfort," Log 47 (2019): 45-50.

8

Nausheen H. Anwar, Hassaan F. Khan, Adam Abdullah, Soha Macktoom, and Aqdas Fatima, "Heat Governance in Urban South Asia: The Case of Karachi," (2022). See .

9

Kara Murphy Schlichting, "Hot Town: Sensing Heat in Summertime Manhattan," Environmental History 27, no. 2 (2022): 354-368.

10

Barber, "After Comfort."

11

Nicole Starosielski, "Beyond the Sun: Embedded Solarities and Agricultural Practice," South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 1 (2021): 13-24.

12

Adam Abdullah, Soha Macktoom, and Nausheen H. Anwar, “Thermal Comfort and Cooling Technologies Amongst Low-Income Households and Informal Outdoor Workers in Urban South Asia,” (paper presented at Cooling Asia: Technology, Environment and Society in Hot Climates, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, November 2022).