Architecture and identity : towards a global eco-culture
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Bibliographic Information
Architecture and identity : towards a global eco-culture
Architectural Press, 1997
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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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