Technoscientific Architecture and Cooling Technologies in Latin America: Temperature Regimes and Climate Adaptation

PhD project
in the project Cooling the Global South: Technology, Society, and Thermal Regulation in the Twentieth Century (Emmy Noether-Programme der DFG)

This project examines the development of technoscientific architecture and cooling technologies in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century at the intersection of environmental, architectural, and technological history. Focusing on temperature regulation and climate adaptation, it investigates how infrastructures of heating and cooling shaped urban environments within transnational networks of expertise, policy, and design, revealing the region’s role in global histories of modernization, development and environmental governance."