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Tropical architecture : critical regionalism in the age of globalization / Edited by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre and Bruno Stagno.
Fine Arts Library NA2542.T7 T9 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Tropical.
- Architecture and climate.
- Vernacular architecture.
- Architecture--Tropics--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Tropics.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester ; New York : Wiley-Academy ; Netherands : Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, 2001.
- Summary:
- Tropical Architecture presents a selection of essays by architectural historians and theoreticians on key issues in tropical architecture today. Alongside these are examples of work (both architectural and urbanist) from leading tropical architecture practitioners - including emerging practitioners and established architectural stars. Contributors include Ken Yeang, Michael Pearce, Charles Correa and many more.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Tropical Critical Regionalism: Introductory Comments / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis 1
- Chapter 2 The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism and Tropicalism after 1945 / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis 14
- Chapter 3 Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas / Gerardo Mosquera 59
- Chapter 4 Tropicality / Bruno Stagno 65
- Chapter 5 Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity / Tan Hock Beng 93
- Chapter 6 Architecture and National Identity / Severiano Porto 104
- Chapter 7 Architecture and City in the Caribbean: The Reinvention of Paradise / Roberto Segre 113
- Chapter 8 The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syneretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics / Eduardo Tejeira-Davis 154
- Chapter 9 Designing and Building in the Tropics / Bruno Stagno 173
- Chapter 10 Architectural Responses in Tropical India / Rahul Mehrotra 191
- Chapter 11 The Green Agenda / Ken Yeang 215
- Chapter 12 Three Tropical Design Paradigms / Bay Joo Hwa Phillip 229
- Chapter 13 Rethinking the City in the Tropics: The Tropical City Concept / Tay Kheng Soon 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0471496081
- OCLC:
- 49355918
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