Architecture and identity : towards a global eco-culture
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Architecture and identity : towards a global eco-culture
Architectural Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edited collection of essays brings together the author's key writings on the technological, cultural and theoretical developments reshaping modern architecture into a responsive movement for the 21st century. The author approaches the subject of architecture and its relation to social and cultural identities from a wide range of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and critic on four continents. The result is a global perspective on the changing nature of modern architecture at the turn of the millennium.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: science and technology
- ditching the dinosaur sanctuary
- urban chaos or self-organization?
- design method and new science
- return to craft manufacture
- visible and invisible complexities. Part 2: critical theory - meaning and rationality in design
- critical relativism - the role of metaphor in changing architectural concepts
- function of tacit knowing in design
- the essential tension
- tradition and linked solutions. Part 3: regionalism and globalization - architecture as identity
- living in a hybrid world
- regional transformations
- prime objects
- localization versus globalization
- ecodevelopment, technology and regionalism.
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