Main entry:

Abel, Chris.

Title & Author:

Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel ; with a foreword by Suha Ozkan.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, ©2000.

Description:

xvii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.
Foreword / Suha Ozkan -- 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 -- The Bio-Tech Architecture Workshop -- Critical Theory -- Architectural language games -- Role of metaphor in changing architectural concepts -- Function of tacit knowing in learning design -- The essential tension -- Tradition, innovation and linked solutions -- Regionalism and Globalization -- Architecture as identity -- Living in a hybrid world -- Regional transformations -- Prime objects -- Localization versus globalization -- Towards a global eco-culture -- Asian urban futures.

Summary:

"This edited collection of essays 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 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 architectural 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."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0750642467 (paperback)
9780750642460 (paperback)

Subject:

Abel, Chris
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Regionalism in architecture.
Identity (Psychology)
Architecture et philosophie.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Régionalisme en architecture.
Identité (Psychologie)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Kulturelle Identität
Philosophie
Regionalismus
Umwelt
Arkitektur.
Identitet.
Teknologi.
Kultur.
Miljø
Arkitekturteori 1970-
Arkitektur og økologi.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Özkan, Suha

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213169
Call No.: NA2599.8.A139.A35 2000
Status: Available