Titre et auteur:

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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Résumé:

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.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471496081
9780471496083

Sujet:

Architecture, Tropical.
Regionalism in architecture Tropics.
Architecture tropicale.
Régionalisme en architecture Régions tropicales.
Regionalism in architecture.
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Globalisierung
Bouwkunst.
Tropics.
Tropen
tropical architecture
architecture
regionalism
globalization

Vedettes secondaires:

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

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 216151
Cote: NA2542.T7 T9 2001
Statut: Disponible