Architecture of regionalism in the age of globalization : peaks and valleys in the flat world / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefaivre, Liane.

Contributor:

Tzonis, Alexander.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism in architecture.

Architecture and globalization.

Physical Description:

x, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Peaks and valleys in the flat world

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

The definitive introductory book on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization, this text addresses issues of identity, community, geopolitics, and sustainability along with a selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world.

Through time, globalization and regionalism have been antagonistic. Globalization has tended to 'flatten' obstacles to the interaction between places, transforming a world of barriers and insular regions into a 'flat world' enabling creativity and bringing about unprecedented wealth but also producing inequality, wastefulness and ecological destruction. Regionalism by contrast has supported the singularity, autonomy and distinct identity of regions, enhancing differences between them, nurturing diversity, and contributing to a world of 'peaks and valleys', but it has also tended to confine, tearing apart societies and promoting destructive consumerist tourism.

Lefaivre and Tzonis retrace the multiple twists of the evolving conflict between globalization and regionalism within a vast critical historical perspective in relation to the design of the human-made environment. Engaging, vivid, and scholarly, the book demystifies this opposition and points to critical regionalism as a potential means of bringing together the two tendencies within a new framework of ecological complementarity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. The end of geography?

The regional and the classical imperial

The first regionalist building-manifesto

A flat archipelago of garden-villas

"Consult the genius of the place in all"

From the decorated farm to the rise of patriotic regionalism

From regions to nation

Gothic communalism and nationalist regionalism

Homelands, world-fairs, living-spaces, and the regional cottage

International style versus regionalism

Regionalism rising

Regionalism redefined

Regionalism now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415575782

0415575788

9780415575799

0415575796

OCLC:

491889292