Architecture and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Identity write by Chris Abel. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Architecture and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer' This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping Modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century. Chris Abel approaches his subject 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 unique global perspective on the changing nature of Modern architecture at the turn of the millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact of information technology on customized architecture production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia. Chris Abel is an architectural writer and educator, based in Malta. He has taught at major universities in the UK, North and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and is a contributor to numerous international journals and other publications. He currently holds visiting appointments at the University of Malta and the University of the Phillippines.
Architecture and Identity
Architecture and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Identity write by Peter Herrle. This book was released on 2008. Architecture and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together complex fields of knowledge and globally splintered discourses on a subject that is experienced not only by scholars, but in the everyday lives of people around the world. There is a common complaint about the loss of identity which, to a substantial degree, is being associated with the built environment in cities and specifically with their architecture. "Architecture and Identity" takes a global, multidisciplinary look on how identities in contemporary architecture are constructed. The general hypothesis underlying this book is that in a globalized world identity in architecture cannot be easily derived from distinct indigenous patterns. The book presents forty contributions from various disciplines aiming to destroy the myth of an inheritable or otherwise prefabricated identity. Some authors dismantle constructs of identity that have long been considered as "solid" and unbreakable while others meticulously unravel the "construction" process of identities in
Architecture, Power and National Identity
Architecture, Power and National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Power and National Identity write by Lawrence Vale. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Architecture, Power and National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture write by Peter Herrle. This book was released on 2009. Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.
Architecture and Identity
Architecture and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Identity write by Chris Abel. This book was released on 1997. Architecture and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is a collection of the author's writings on the technological, cultural and theoretical developments reshaping modern architecture. The author approaches the subject from a range of knowledge including cybernetics, new human science and philosophy.
