The Earlier Era of Eco-Technology: Pavilions at the Colonial Exhibition of Pasar Gambir and the ‘Eastern-Western’ Architectural Influences in the Netherlands Indies

This paper examines architecture in the Netherlands Indies and analyses how some innovation in the practice of architecture is actually coming from an adaptation to local conditions. It is in the notion of sustainable architecture not as a single entity of Western descendent but as loaded with cultural, historical and local contexts that this paper gravitates. As the discussion are pavilions in Pasar Gambir of Batavia - a temporary architecture practices - and ITB main hall that was designed with a strong connection to local conditions. During the Dutch colonial time in Indonesia there was alr... Mehr ...