Title & Author:

Tropical architecture : critical regionalism in the age of globalization / edited by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre and Bruno Stagno.

Publication:

Chichester ; New York : Wiley-Academic ; The Netherlands : C. Fonds, 2001.

Description:

311 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tropical critical regionalism : introductory comments / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis -- The suppression and rethinking of regionalism and tropicalism after 1945 / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis -- Globalization : some cultural dilemmas / Gerardo Mosquera -- Tropicality / Bruno Stagno -- Modernizing appropriations/appropriating modernity / Tan Hock Beng -- Architecture and national identity / Severiano Porto -- Architecture and city in the Caribbean : the reinvention of paradise / Roberto Segre -- The architecture of the Panama Canal : colonialism, syncretism and coming to terms with the tropics / Eduardo Tejeira-Davis -- Designing and building in the tropics / Bruno Stagno -- Architectural responses in tropical India / Rahul Mehrotra -- The green agenda / Ken Yeang -- Three tropical design paradigms / Bay Joo Hwa Philip -- Rethinking the city in the tropics : the tropical city concept / Tay Kheng Soon.
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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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471496081
9780471496083

Subject:

Architecture, Tropical.
Regionalism in architecture Tropics.
Architecture tropicale.
Régionalisme en architecture Régions tropicales.
Regionalism in architecture.
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Globalisierung
Bouwkunst.
Architecture and climate
Vernacular architecture
Architecture Tropics 20th century.
Tropics.
Tropen
tropical architecture
architecture
regionalism
globalization

Added entries:

Tzonis, Alexander.
Stagno, Bruno, 1943-
Lefaivre, Liane.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216151
Call No.: NA2542.T7 T9 2001
Status: Available