Title & Author:

Architecture and identity / edited by Peter Herrle and Erik Wegerhoff.

Publication:

Berlin : Lit, ©2008.

Description:

501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Habitat-international ; Bd. 9

Notes:
Papers from a conference held in Dec. 2004 and organized by the Habitat Unit.
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture and Identity? Steppenwolf and the Carriers of Change / Peter Herrle -- 1. Making of Local Identity -- Identity, Work Process and Appropriation of Space / Yvonne Mautner -- World as a Collection of Postcards: Evita's Architectural Project(ion)s and the Making of Argentinean Identity / Liliana Ruth Feierstein -- Far from Home: Contemporary Slovenian Architecture in the Making / Petra Ceferin -- Japanese Example -- or the Art of Appropriation / Astrid Edlinger -- Architecture of Balinization / Amanda Achmadi -- Talking Japan / Florian Urban -- Beyond Style: A Case Study in Contemporary Japanese Residential Architecture / Thomas Daniell -- Images of Switzerland at the World Fairs -- Ephemeral Architecture as a Symbol for National Identity? / Christine Muller -- Monument without Qualities: Inscribing Narratives of Self in Public Space / Shundana Yusaf -- 2. Global and the Local -- Retrospective on the Social Housing Policy in Algeria -- Glances on the Cultural Referents of the Algerian Architects / Meriem Chabou -- Impact of Globalization on Local Architecture in Ghana / George W. K. Intsiful -- What (a) State? Brazilianess via Architecture in West Africa / Uche Isichei -- Construction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Architecture / Patricia Morgado -- Searching for Identity: Architecture and Urbanism in Uganda / Mark R. O. Olweny and Jacqueline Wadulo -- Tale of Two Cities: Competing Literary Visions for Contemporary Latin American Architecture / J. Agustin Pasten B. -- Iconic Architecture and Capitalist Globalization / Leslie Sklair -- Architecture, Globalization and Identity / Anthony D. King -- 3. Theoretical Concepts -- Revisited -- John McAndrew, the Museum of Modern Art, and the 'Naturalization' of Modern Architecture in America, ca 1940 / Keith L. Eggener -- Frampton's Critical Regionalism Reconsidered: The 'Mexican', Barragan, and 'Metropolitan' Theories / Leonardo Diaz-Borioli -- Transculturation and Architecture in Latin America / Felipe Hernandez -- (Human) Habitat: Humanism, Architecture and Habitat 67/04 / Cynthia I. Hammond -- Vernacular -- Or: Towards a New Brutalism / Manuel Herz -- Image and Identity: Architecture of 'Non-Lieux' in Mexico 1990-2000 / Johanna Lozoya Meckes -- Linking Notions: A Reconstructed Perspective of Identity and Architecture / Carmen Popescu -- Le Corbusier's Doubts Concerning Canonical Origins / Pamela Theodora -- 4. Diversity as a Pattern of Local Architecture -- Centennial of Post-Ottoman Identity: Contemporary Design Concepts in the Balkans and the Middle East / Zeynep Aygen -- Work of Vilanova Artigas and Lina Bo Bardi, 1950 -- 1970 Regional Identity and Modern Architecture in the Postcolonial, Brazilian Context / Steffen Lehmann -- Shanghai: Cosmopolitanism as Identity? / Yongyi Lu and Dehua Li -- Contradictions at Work: Towards a Stereophonic Identity? / Indrek Peil -- Building Identity? On the Representation of State and/or National Perceptions Nowadays. Berlin's European Embassies as a Case Study / Alberto Alessi -- Nothing Is Foreign: Strategies of Brazilianisation in Modern Brazilian Architecture / Styliane Philippou -- Schisms of Urban Programming: The Hybrid Spaces of the Balkans/ 'Hybrid' Spaces: hybrida, hibrida / Guven Arif Sargin -- What Identity, Whose Identity? / Dogan Kuban -- 5. Identity and (Invented) Traditions -- Uluru Kata-Tjuta Cultural Centre Centring Aboriginality or a site of resistance? / Carolynne Baker -- Britomart Contemporary Public Transport Interchange Meets Traditional Maori Meeting House / Clinton Bird -- Negotiating Cultural Identity at Tehran's Al-Ghadir Mosque / Alisa Eimen -- Eclectic Architecture in Indonesia: Looking for Identity? / Florian Steinberg -- Using the Past to Serve the Future -- The Quest for an Architectural Chinese Renaissance Style Representing Republican China in the 1920s-1930s / Eduard Kogel -- Portuguese Contemporary Architecture -- A Struggle between History and Geography / Madalena Cunha Matos -- Politics of Culture and the Problem of Tradition: Re-evaluating Regionalist Interpretations of the Architecture of Geoffrey Bawa / Carl O'Coill and Kathleen Watt.
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Summary:

"This book brings together complex fields of knowledge and globally splintered discourses on the common complaint about the loss of identity which, to a substantial degree, is 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 book presents forty contributions from various disciplines aiming to destroy the myth of an inheritable or otherwise prefabricated identity."

ISBN:

9783825810887 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
3825810887 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Comparative architecture Congresses.
Architecture and society Congresses.
Architecture comparée Congrès.
Architecture et société Congrès.
Architecture and society.
Comparative architecture.

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Herrle, Peter.
Wegerhoff, Erik.
Technische Universität Berlin. Habitat Unit.
Habitat--international (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) ; Bd. 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262407
Call No.: BIB 193511
Status: Available